Chinese Police Deny Rumors of Former EXO’s Kris Wu Dying in Prison
Nov 15, 2025
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According to local media reports such as Asian Television News (ATV) and Shintu News on the 13th, a message from a local netizen claiming that he was imprisoned in the same prison as Chris was posted on Weibo recently. He claimed that `a few days ago, the prison guard secretly said something and suddenly Chris died.' `I was killed because I failed to meet the demands of the head of a local gang.'
Along with the article, a photo of a man in a blue prison uniform being interrogated was also spread. The face of the person in the picture was mosaic-processed, but it was ranked at the top of the real-time search word list on Weibo, further fueling rumors. According to some netizens, Chris died of ill health during a hunger strikeThe controversy spread out of control with even claims that "' ' were made.
As false information spread exponentially, the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Bureau began to evolve directly through the official Weibo. Public security officials said that the photo circulated on the Internet was a completely fabricated fake, saying, "The photo circulated on the Internet was edited and synthesized to cover Chris' face." He then warned that spreading unverified rumors could lead to legal punishment and asked for an end to indiscriminate dissemination online.
Meanwhile, Chris was accused of sexually assaulting three women in the same way in December 2020, including assaulting a drunken woman at his home. In July 2018, he was also accused of committing obscene acts with two women in his home with another person. He was arrested in 2021, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2023, and is currently serving time.
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