Francesca Shaw

Francesca Shaw is a socialite and former girlfriend of Nick Young. She is a minor character in the Crazy Rich Asians book series by Kevin Kwan, and was an antagonist in the first book.

Background
Francesca is the daughter of Nadine Shaw, one of Eleanor Young's closest friends. She was the heiress to the Shaw Foods fortune before her grandfather, Shaw Foods founder Ronald Shaw, cut off the entire family from his fortune after unexpectedly waking up from his coma due to a stroke several years earlier.

She, like Amanda "Mandy" Ling, had a relationship with Nick Young in her youth. Nick mentions that they grew apart after her personality changed. Francesca still hoped to eventually marry Nick, however, as she was extremely envious of Nick's new girlfriend Rachel Chu and treated her horribly when they first met.

Francesca later had an affair with a married Roderick Liang, which caused a scandal that eventually forced her to flee Singapore. She is currently married to a Syrian/Iranian Jewish businessman and has a son with him named Joshua.

Crazy Rich Asians
Francesca spends most of the book trying to harass Rachel Chu, whom Francesca is jealous of due to her relationship with Nick Young. It is heavily implied that Francesca is the one who put the mutilated fish in Rachel's hotel room to scare her, and she also purposefully makes Rachel uncomfortable by sharing a lewd story about a sexual experience that she had with Nick before his relationship with Rachel.