Lauryn Hill Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion: Faces Up to 3 Years in Prison
Lauryn Hill, the performer who has won 8 Grammys in her career, pleaded guilty to not paying her federal income taxes this week. Hill earned over $1.5 million in three years and didn’t pay the IRS, according to authorities. Hill appeared in US District Court in Newark and entered her plea of failing to file returns from 2005 to 2007. She was charged three weeks ago and faces one year in prison for each year of evasion.
According to Hill’s attorney, Nathan Hochman, Hill was going to repay the entire amount due. US Magistrate Judge Michael Shipp had originally scheduled sentencing for October, but has delayed the sentencing until November to give Hill time to come up with the money.
Hill has confessed to not paying taxes on $818,000 earned in 2005, $222,000 in 2006 and $761,000 in 2007. She earned the money through four businesses she owns. Hill has been famous since her start with the Fugees in the 1990s. She then hit a smash with her album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” She was named by Vigalantee “The Hip-hopologist” as the greatest female emcee of all-time, and is respected for both her vocal skill and lyrical capability.
Hill has changed over the years, making few public appearances and not performing at the level audiences expect. She says that she didn’t file taxes for several years because she and her family were in hiding.
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why do these celebs do this to themselves?
Oh well, everyone things they can get away without paying.
Give the government what you owe, life will be a lot simpler, they will get you when you least expect it.
I learned my lesson a few years back, it hurts a lot more when they take it from you.
Just my opinion
everyone thinks
We are forced to pay taxes, which wouldn’t be so bad if the wealth was used to better our society, and all of mankind, but alas it is being used to do just the opposite! When we pay taxes we are helping the super-rich ‘elite’ who use it to murder and pillage us and people of color around the world! It’s difficult for many to believe this, but things are not as we are fooled to believe they are.
If everyone were of the same knowledge and sense of mind, we could all stop paying taxes together and drive this killing machine, we are attached to by birth, to a halt! Yet brainwashed as most are, we will only remain enslaved followers of “the powers that be”!
Unfortunately, WizardG is correct. I came across a document that plainly stated that our tax dollars are not going to the reduction of the debt at all. It’s going straight to the pockets of the wealthy elite in government, corporations and the clergy and a tax to our mommy, The Royal British Crown. It’s past time to wake up.
I hope that all works out for Lauryn. God bless her & family. It seems that we r becoming increasingly more under siege. Either we r murdered, jailed, publicly ostracized or have the IRS sicked on us.
I hope that all works out for Lauryn. God bless her & family. It seems that we r becoming increasingly more under siege. Either we r murdered, jailed, publicly ostracized, have the IRS sicked on us or a combination of the aforementioned.