Wu was previously one of China’s most bankable stars, but brands including Louis Vuitton and Porsche suspended their partnerships with him over the case.
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 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 year and 10 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 were unable to 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.
