Musician pleads guilty in Douglas County privacy case, agrees to leave US

A 33-year-old musician pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court to a felony breach-of-privacy charge after prosecutors said he posted private material about a former University of Kansas girlfriend, and the deal requires him to leave the United States voluntarily. The agreement also drops a misdemeanor protection-order allegation and calls for a recommended sentence of eight months in prison, suspended to 18 months of unsupervised probation.

Prosecutors said the case stemmed from a four-year relationship that ended in 2025, after which Di Wang retaliated by posting personal information and intimate imagery on RedNote, the Chinese social-media and e-commerce platform known in English as Xiaohongshu. The material included imagery of the victim in a partial state of nudity, and the conduct fell squarely within Kansas’s breach-of-privacy statute.

Kansas Statute 21-6101 defines breach of privacy to include secretly recording or disseminating nude or sexually explicit images of an identifiable adult when that person had a reasonable expectation of privacy and did not consent. Wang told the judge he had made a mistake and let emotion overtake his judgment. The misdemeanor count alleging he violated a protection order by lingering near the victim’s home in April 2026 was dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

The timing shows how slowly these cases can move through the court system. The incident happened in mid-November 2025, the plea deal had already been reached in March 2026, and the hearing took place June 22, 2026, after Wang remained in the country long enough to graduate in May from the University of Minnesota, where he was a doctoral student in trombone. University of Minnesota music pages had publicly listed him in connection with a spring 2025 concerto competition performance.

Douglas County’s court system makes criminal case information, charges, hearing times, and courtroom details publicly viewable online, giving residents a clear view of how felony cases like this one move from arrest to resolution. In this case, the record ended with a guilty plea, a sentencing recommendation, and a departure requirement that may remove Wang from the country, but it does not erase the online breach prosecutors said damaged the KU student’s privacy.