Kris Wu Biography, Wikipedia, Wife, Age, Net Worth, Daughter, Instagram, Married, Parents
Candian-Chinese ex-popstar Kris Wu was sentenced to a 13-year jail term in a court in China after being proven guilty of r*pe and group licentiousness.
Wu was already arrested and charged in August 2021. Although the case was reportedly heard behind closed doors, the allegations against the former EXO member were pretty huge.
According to Variety, Wu will be deported out of the country in China after serving his 13-year jail term, which means he wouldn’t be out until 2035.
The following information on Kris Wu’s Biography, Net Worth, Age, Family, Parents, Siblings, Girlfriend, Wife, Daughter and Nationality is all you need to know.
Kris Wu Biography
Kris Wu real name is Wu Yi Fan (born 6 November 1990), is a Canadian former rapper, singer, actor and model. He is a former member of South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its subgroup Exo-M under SM Entertainment, before leaving the group in 2014.
Kris Wu Parents, Education
Li Jiaheng was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, to Stacey Yu Wu and Li Kaiming. His parents divorced when he was a toddler and he was raised solely by his mother.
At the age of 10, he moved to Vancouver, Canada, with his mother. He returned to China at the age of 14 and attended Guangzhou No. 7 Middle School for a brief period, after which he and his mother went back to Vancouver, where he attended Point Grey Secondary School and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School under the name Kevin Li. At the age of 17, his legal name was changed to Wu Yi Fan.
At the age of 18, Wu auditioned for SM Entertainment’s Canadian global auditions, which were held in Vancouver; after passing the auditions, he became a trainee for the company and was offered a role in Exo in 2012.
View this post on Instagram
Kris Wu Career
On 17 February 2012, Wu was introduced as the eleventh member of Exo. In April 2012, Exo made their debut and quickly became one of the most popular K-pop groups in South Korea and internationally, achieving commercial success with their studio album XOXO and their hit song “Growl” in 2013. The album became the first album by a Korea-based artist in twelve years to sell over one million copies, and is the 12th best selling album of all time in Korea. Before leaving the group, Wu was featured on Exo’s Overdose album, which was released in May 2014 and became the best selling album of 2014 in South Korea.
On 22 April 2020, Wu released the four-track EP Testing, preceded by the single “Aurora” on 15 April. The EP was pre-ordered one million times just 87 minutes after being made available on Tencent streaming platform QQ Music, marking a new record for the platform. The EP features three Chinese songs and one in English.
On 8 July 2021, Du Meizhu, a 19-year-old Chinese college student, posted allegations online accusing Wu of a pattern of s*xual assault involving multiple females, some underage, while they were unconscious and under the influence of alcohol. Through the Chinese social media platform Weibo, Du stated she was raped under intoxication on 5 December 2020, at age 18, and that she was speaking for at least seven other victims, two of whom were minors at the time of the crime.
Wu was detained by police in Beijing on 31 July 2021, and formally arrested on 16 August 2021, on suspicion of rape. On 25 November 2022, Chaoyang District People’s Court in Beijing sentenced Wu to a total of 13 years in prison and deportation from China after serving his sentence for rape and group lewdness. Wu was also fined an additional six hundred million yuan for tax evasion.
Kris Wu Wife
Kris Wu reports married in secret and is a father to a 2-year-old baby girl.
According to reports on Korean and Chinese online portals, Kris is a married man and his wife is believed to be raising their daughter alone.
It has been reported that similar such claims have been made in the past, and resurfaced recently amidst the actor’s legal battles. Previously, the claims were rubbished and considered baseless rumours as there was insufficient evidence to support the same.
Kris Wu and his team have not yet confirmed or denied these new allegations.
Kris Wu Net Worth
Kris Wu’s Net Worth is estimated to be $9 million. He was a former member of the Korean supergroup EXO. However, he left the team in 2014 after a flurry of controversy with the management.