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Kris Wu has been in prison since 2021 after a young woman accused him of raping her.
Kris Wu, the well-known Chinese-Canadian K-pop singer]was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of various sex offenses.
A Beijing court convicted the 32-year-old singer and actor of raping three women and gathering a crowd to participate in an orgy.
Wu was arrested last year after a student accused him of raping her. Since then, 24 new victims have made similar claims.
Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court said Friday Wu had to serve an 11-year, six-month prison sentence for raping three women in his home “when they were drunk and didn’t know or couldn’t resist.”
He also received a sentence of one year and 10 months for “assembling people to commit adultery,” the court added.
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The first to accuse him was college student Du Meizhu, who posted on social media last year that she had met Wu two years earlier, when she was 17.
She said she was invited to a party at her home where she was pressured into drinking alcohol and that she woke up in her bed the next day.
Wu denied the claims, but at least 24 other victims have accused him of abuse. He was accused of inviting women to alcohol-filled karaoke parties.
The singer also faces a fine of 600 million yuan ($83 million) for tax evasion. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said it used a fictitious company to misrepresent its earnings around the world.
Wu was born in China but has Canadian citizenship. He rose to fame in the 2010s as a member of Korean pop band EXO.
After a solo career as a singer, actor, model and variety show judge, he became one of China’s top stars.
Following the scandal, brands including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, L’Oreal Men and Porsche suspended their dealings with Wu.
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