R&B singer, Lauryn Hill turned herself in to prison authorities on July 8, 2013 to serve a three month sentence in federal prison for failure to pay taxes on $1.8 million in earnings. Despite assurances to the court today that her outstanding tax liabilities had been paid in their entirety, Lauryn Hill was slapped with a three month stint in prison for failing to file and pay taxes on time. In the end, simply paying the tax wasn’t enough. She was also fined $60,ooo.
Hill took advantage of the opportunity to address the judge and to make a statement:
“I was put into a system I didn’t know the nature of. … I’m a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me… I sold 50 million units … now I’m up here paying a tax debt. If that’s not likened to slavery, I don’t know what is.”
After serving her three month sentence, Lauryn Hill was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on October 4, 2013.
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