A California multimillionaire who eluded cops as a fugitive for years after allegedly strangling his wife has pleaded guilty in the grisly slaying at the couple’s swanky oceanside home.

Peter Chadwick, 57, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in prison as part of a plea deal in the October 2012 killing of Quee Choo Chadwick, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

The former real estate investor apologized to a judge seven years after skipping a court hearing as he awaited trial in his 46-year-old wife’s slaying on second-degree murder charges, the Orange County Register reported.

Prosecutors alleged Chadwick strangled her at their posh Newport Beach home during a squabble over a possible divorce and financial issues.

“I wish I could take it back,” Chadwick told the judge. “I compounded that by running away from it. I destroyed everything, so I deserve whatever the court decides.”

Chadwick said his wife was “so loving” and “cared for everyone” she met. He had initially claimed a handyman killed her and then forced him to drive to Mexico to dispose of her body, the Register reported.

But cops, who caught up with Chadwick in San Diego near Mexico’s border the following day, spotted dried blood on his hands, as well as scratches on his neck. He later led cops to his wife’s body, which was wrapped in the couple’s comforter inside a dumpster in Lakeside.

Chadwick then admitted to concocting the handyman ruse, court filings show. He was arrested on a first-degree murder charge, but was released after posting $1 million bond.

The wealthy businessman, who had surrendered his British and American passports, proceeded to skip out on a January 2015 court hearing and went on the lam for four years. He managed to avoid arrest by staying at luxury hotels in Mexico and constantly moving around, police said in August 2019.

The real estate investor had been on the US Marshals Service’s most-wanted list.

When cops went to his father’s home in Santa Barbara after he fled, they found several books he apparently left behind, including “How to Change Your Identity” and “Surviving in Mexico,” the Register reported.

Chadwick, who used several aliases in Mexico, was ultimately captured near Puebla, outside Mexico City. He worked odd jobs at times, but never stayed long at one place. The couple’s three sons were left behind with other relatives in the United States, the newspaper reported.

“Three young boys lost their entire reality the day their mother was murdered by their father,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “It took years of painstaking police work to track down this defendant in order to hold him accountable for the murder of his wife and the mother of his three sons.”