Gu Kailai is Bo Xilai’s current wife. They got married in 1986, and had a son called Bo Guagua.Li Danyu is Bo's first wife and they also had a son together.

As the youngest daughter of a revolutionary general Gu Jingsheng, Gu Kailai is a talented laywer and also very fluent in English. She is the first Chinese lawyer to win a civil suit in the US.

Gu Kailai is currently in police custody on suspicion of the death of Neil Heywood who died in a hotel in Chongqing in November 2011. The case was brought out in March 2012, and many people think it was a policital dispute between the top Chinese politicians. The reveal of the truth may not come for a long while due to the untransparency of the politics in China.