Actor-singer Aaron Yan gets 7-month suspended prison term fo...

Actor-singer Aaron Yan gets 7-month suspended prison term for sex video scandal

The Straits Times | 2024-05-31 10:06

Taiwanese actor-singer Aaron Yan was given a seven-month suspended prison sentence on May 30, ending the sex video scandal involving the 38-year-old and his ex-boyfriend Yao Le, 22. According to the Taipei Times, Taiwan's Shilin District Court ruled that Yan had recorded the videos of him having sex with a minor - when Yao Le was 16 - from December 2017 to June 2018 with the intention of sharing them. The court handed down a seven-month prison sentence, which was suspended for three years and can be commuted to a fine, after Yan reached a settlement in March with Yao Le, a Taiwanese influencer. The settlement sum was not disclosed due to a confidentiality agreement between the two men. Yan - who rose to fame in 2006 as a member of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit - was also slapped with another sentence of four months imprisonment for contravening the Personal Data Protection Act, for se...

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