The reinvention of the Chow brothers - from the sex industry to property 13 minutes to read Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz Property investor, Stonewood Homes director and former sex industry king John Chow talks to Jane Phare about his $2 billion target, overcoming his shyness and his purple Rolls-Royce. There's a video on John Chow's LinkedIn page that shows him next to his gleaming $500,000 purple Rolls-Royce SUV, wearing a pair of bright orange Crocs. He's bought another Rolls, he tells the camera, this time a red one. "Here goes", he says gleefully, bending down to roll a miniature version of his SUV across the concrete.