Quick Facts
Biography
Nông Thị Xuân (1932–1957) was a mistress (người tình)of Viet Minh leader (later North Vietnamese president) Ho Chi Minh, who mothered a child with Hồ and died in a vehicle accident shortly after Xuân was an ethnic Nùng from Cao Bằng Province.
Historian William Duiker also mentioned this rumor, however, saying that the story is "just like fairy tales", because in the archives (both in the country and abroad), he never saw Ho Chi Minh or his relatives ever mentioned this story. Vũ Kỳ Ho Chi Minh's secretary (who was also mentioned as having a significant role in the story) in an interview in 2004 denied the story, saying that Vũ Thư Hiên was based on some unfounded rumors to fictitize this story.
Relationship
According to Vũ Thư Hiên in the book "Đêm giữa ban ngày",Nông Thị Xuân was chosen in 1955 to look after the health of uncle Hồ. Xuân and her sister named Vàng stayed at 66 Hàng Bông Thợ Nhuộm street, next to Quang Trung street. Normally, Minister of Security Trần Quốc Hoàn himself took Xuân to meet Hồ, and then drove her back.And that was where she conceived a son with Hồ, named Nguyễn Tất Trung, born in late 1956. The North Vietnamese communist government kept Hồ's relationship with her and others firmly secretive to preserve the cult of personality that was created around Hồ Chí Minh, of his image as "the father of the revolution" and of a "celibate married only to the cause of revolution".
Ho Chi Minh was also married to Zeng Xueming, a southern Chinese midwife, and formerly to Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, a Vietnamese communist revolutionary from Hồ's home province of Nghệ An.