Chinese police detain concert pianist Li Yundi over prostitution allegations
BEIJING – Show pianist Li Yundi, one of China’s most impressive players, has been arrested in Beijing for prostitution crises, clarify media said on Thursday (Oct 21), urging some incredulity and most mockery on Chinese social media.
Reuters was unable to rapidly reach Li or a typical for remark.
Cops in the Chinese resources’s Chaoyang expanse said they possessed arrested a 39-year-archaic man surnamed Li, along via a 29-year-archaic female surnamed Chen after recovering records from the public of prostitution in a neighbourhood they did not pinpoint.
Both human beings admitted to the felonious activity, according to the police testament on Weibo, a microblogging platform tantamount to Twitter. The police account afterwards posted a cozy-up photograph of a piano.
The authorities Human beings’s Daily adventurous the man as Li Yundi, thieving advantage of the hashtag #LiYundiDetainedForProstitution. The hashtag possessed been pertained to some 790 million times within two hours of the police brief message and amassed severely 200,000 annotations.
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“My God. Li Yundi, the piano prince?” one shocked netizen wrote.
At simply 18, Li come to be the youngest pianist to win first reward at the respected International Chopin Piano Commemoration in 2000.
He went on to perform in Vienna, Brand name-newfangled York and St Petersburg and afterwards come to be the youngest juror on the commemoration in 2015.
In that same year, he included in a Toyota auto companies alongside American singer Taylor Swift.
Wearing some intended recitals on an Australia and Brand name-newfangled Zealand scenic tour in 2020 held off due to the coronavirus pandemic, Li has recently been appearing on a Chinese reality TV divulge.
