{"id":152246,"date":"2025-11-14T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=152246"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:15:26","slug":"chinese-authorities-deny-death-rumors-about-former-exo-member-kris-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/chinese-authorities-deny-death-rumors-about-former-exo-member-kris-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authorities deny death rumors about former EXO member, Kris Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former<strong> EXO<\/strong> member,<strong> Kris Wu<\/strong>, has become a hot trending topic in the Online Chinese communities after it was rumored that the idol had died. Now, Chinese authorities are firmly dismissing the ongoing speculations.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Wu is currently serving a 13-year prison sentence in China on sexual assault charges. The rumors started after an anonymous post on Weibo popped up, claiming to be incarcerated in the same facility as Kris. <strong>The writer claimed that Kris Wu died after being brutally beaten for refusing sexual demands from a prison gang leader<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison-.jpg\" alt=\"Kris Wu is still in prison for his sexual assault charges\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-idol-is-still-healthy-at-prison--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities took the unusual step of issuing an official statement to clear the air and shut down the rumors. Jiangsu provincial authorities posted on Weibo, labeling the claims as<strong><em> \u201cfake news\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and warning that spreading unverified information could result in legal consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former EXO member, Kris Wu, has become a hot trending topic in the Online Chinese communities after it was rumored that the idol had died. Now, Chinese authorities are firmly dismissing the ongoing speculations. Kris Wu is currently serving a 13-year prison sentence in China on sexual assault charges. The rumors started after an anonymous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":152247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"class_list":{"0":"post-152246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}