Kris Wu Bio – Kris Wu Wiki
Wu Yi Fan, known professionally as Kris Wu, is a Canadian rapper, singer, actor, and model. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its subgroup Exo-M under SM Entertainment before leaving the group in 2014.
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Kris Wu is 32 years old.
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A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape.
Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and six months for a 2020 rape and one year and ten months for the “crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity” in a 2018 event in which he and others allegedly assaulted two women they had gotten drunk.
The court said the three victims in the rape case had also been drunk and could not consent.
It said a combined 13-year sentence was agreed on, and Wu would be immediately deported after serving his time.
“According to the facts … the nature, circumstances and harmful consequences of the crime, the court made the above judgment,” the court said in an online statement.
A Canadian diplomat was in court to hear the sentencing, it said.
Wu was also slapped with a fine of 600 million yuan ($83.7 million) for evading taxes by massively underreporting his earnings from performances, advertisements, and other sources of income.
Wu “used a fake business to convert the nature of his income and falsely declare it, and evaded 95 million yuan of tax by concealing personal income through multiple domestic and overseas affiliated companies,” state news agency Xinhua reported.
The June trial of the 32-year-old former member of the South Korean group EXO was closed to the public to protect the victims’ privacy.
Wu has been detained since August 2021 while police investigated response to comments online that he “repeatedly lured young women” to have sex, according to a police statement.
That year, a teenager accused him of having sex with her while she was drunk. Wu, known in Chinese as Wu Yifan, denied the accusation.
The teenager then said seven other women contacted her to say Wu seduced them with promises of jobs and other opportunities. She said some were under 18.
Rape is punishable by three to 10 years in prison, although exceptional cases can result in harsher sentences up to death. The second charge Wu faced is punishable by up to five years in prison.
We grew up in Guangzhou, China, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Wu was previously one of China’s most bankable stars, but brands including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, L’Oreal Men, and Porsche suspended their partnerships with him over the case.
And more victims spoke out online in the wake of the initial claims, accusing Wu’s staff of predatory behavior, including inviting them to boozy karaoke parties.
The hashtags “girls help girls,” “girls helping girls,” and “girls help girls time” — where women expressed solidarity with Du — were censored from Chinese social media in the wake of the scandal.
The Weibo trending hashtag “the law is the lowest standard of morals” also racked up 830 million views, as users complained about the high legal threshold required for victims to prove sexual assault in court.