Justin Sun Says His Girlfriend Asked for $50 Million. AI Told Him No

Justin Sun has taken his breakup with Chinese actress Jing Tian to court. The TRON founder is suing her and her parents to recover roughly $4.5 million.

The filing landed alongside a sprawling personal essay Sun posted on X, which drew more than 33 million views in a day. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has since called for restraint.

How Justin Sun and Jing Tian Ended Up in Court

The two met in Hong Kong and dated through late 2025. Sun proposed on a Maldives island in January, then wired the 30 million yuan to two accounts held by her parents.

By late February, the relationship had moved to California. Jing Tian checked into a Laguna Beach resort ahead of an egg retrieval procedure, part of a surrogacy plan Sun says she raised herself.

The Tron founder writes that she phoned him on the 8th day and named a price of $50 million before proceeding. He says he ran his cash position through Claude AI, was told to refuse, and went quiet. She hung up and left.

Together with the bride price his lawyers are now chasing, that figure puts the dispute at $54.5 million. 

“If I had given her the money that day, would she have stayed?” wrote Justin Sun. 

He later told Hong Kong outlet The Standard that he still cannot say whether the machine’s judgment, or his own, was right.

Jing, 38, has now fired back without directly addressing Sun’s individual claims.

“I will never sell my love for money,” Jing Tian wrote on Weibo, adding that she believes the courts will ultimately establish the truth. 

Her studio has similarly said the dispute should be handled through legal proceedings.

Why CZ Called Him Out

CZ drew a line between marketing and personal damage. Hard promotion is fair, he wrote. Wrecking a career is not.

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The framing matters. Zhao read the essay as a marketing exercise rather than a confession, and drew the line at reputational damage. This time his sparring partner is not Star Xu, the OKX founder whose long-running clash with CZ has flared repeatedly this year.