After pleading guilty to tax evasion, Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison and an additional three months of “home confinement” today. As you might recall, the singer said she deliberately didn’t report more than $1.5 million in income, because she was “opposed to the system.”
It’s not clear when Hill will report to prison, or where she’ll serve her sentence, though she was facing a maximum penalty of three years behind bars — one for each year she failed to pay taxes. She was also accused by in native New Jersey of failing to pay more than $446,000 in state taxes, though her attorney confirmed to the AP that Hill had already paid more than $970,000 to satisfy her federal and state tax liabilities.
During a statement to the judge that the AP described as “forceful,” Hill said she had always meant to eventually pay the taxes, but was unable to do so because she took a lengthy hiatus from the music industry. She had recently inked a reported $1 million deal with Sony, and on Saturday, she released “Neurotic Society,” her first piece of new music in nearly three years … though, she made it very clear that she was doing so only because her hand was forced.
In “I’ll Just Leave This Here” news, Lindsay Lohan continues to just be hanging around electronics stores smoking cigarettes. [TMZ]
Apparently Kris Humphries got super wasted the night before the big game and everyone is mad and stuff.
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