Mandarin later killed the director when he made the Mandarin movie based off these true facts rather than the idealized past the villain preferred.
During Matt Fraction’s Iron Man run, The Mandarin kidnapped a film director to make a movie about his life, and this director discovered while researching that Mandarin was actually the son of an opium den prostitute.
However, all of the above was revealed to be a lie that The Mandarin had made himself believe to be true using one of his rings.
He did still find those rings later in life, but he killed the pilot of the alien craft, and he was apparently also at the camp where Tony Stark was held captive when he constructed his first Iron Man armor.