Jung appeared as a witness in Seungri's trial and testified he was aware that an adult entertainment manager who Seungri knew had provided the women.
The revelations rocked the K-pop industry and became the highest-profile crime involving hidden cameras secretly filming women, known as "molka", in South Korea. Seungri was a member of a mobile chat room where K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young, who is now serving a five-year sentence for gang rape and other offences, distributed videos of sexual assaults and other encounters. It prompted the agency's CEO, Yang Hyun-suk, to step down, facing probes of his own into illicit gambling. The investigation into the scandal surrounding him uncovered a spate of allegations against other musicians and personnel at YG Entertainment - Seungri's former agency and one of the biggest K-pop management firms. Sentence comes a month before military discharge The singer was also ordered to forfeit 1.15 billion won ($1.3 million). His illegal gambling was "serious" given his status as a celebrity and it went on over a long period. Seungri had changed his testimony under police questioning and in court, the judge added, saying it "lacked credibility". "It appears that he carried out systematic sexual prostitution." "It is hard to see the defendant was not aware of financial payments paid to the women for sex," media reports quoted judge Hwang Min-je as saying. He was also convicted of embezzling funds from a Seoul nightclub he ran and violating laws prohibiting overseas gambling by betting heavily at luxurious casinos in Las Vegas between 2013 to 2017. Seungri ordered to hand over $1.3 million Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, was indicted in January 2020 on multiple charges, including arranging illegal sexual services for business investors from Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong from 2015 to 2016. Yonhap news agency reported that Seungri appeared in court in a combat uniform and shook his head repeatedly as the judge announced the verdict. He was taken into custody after the ruling by an army court in Yongin, near Seoul, on Thursday. It seemed like a really interesting story to tell.The 30-year-old singer from popular boy band Big Bang, who retired from show business as the scandal mounted and later enlisted in the military, was found guilty on all nine counts against him.īig Bang enjoyed widespread fame following their 2006 debut and Seungri went on to become a successful businessman. Then we started talking about it and realized that it's really interesting that they wouldn't be expecting to get pregnant again so quickly and nobody in the audience would be expecting them to do so, either. "Our first thought was that Howard and Bernadette just had a baby and we can do the regular sitcom thing of having her sitting down a lot and putting things in her lap to hide her belly. But when Melissa told us that she and her husband were expecting, we started talking about what we wanted to do in the show," said Holland.
"It was like their pregnancy, it was never the plan.
New showrunner Steve Holland confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that producers decided to write Rauch's pregnancy into the show. The 37-year-old actress is due this fall. Rauch made the announcement on while reflecting on a previous miscarriage and her road to motherhood. xoxoĪ post shared by Melissa Rauch on at 9:07am PDT at 9:07am PDT Thank you all, as always, for your love and support. Have some news I'd like to share.Please click the link in bio.