Una small: American singer Lauryn Hill, vocalist of the defunct group The Fugees, was sentenced in a New Jersey court to three months in jail and another three months of house arrest for tax evasion, according to the prosecution in a statement. Judge Madeleine Cox Arleo of the federal court in Newark (New Jersey) imposed this penalty against the well-known singer and actress, who last year pleaded guilty to all three charges for failing to file his taxes.
Hill, winner of five Grammy Awards, earned between 2005 and 2007 a total income of 1,8 million dollars, mainly from copyrights for his albums and films, and another half million between 2008 and 2009, raising to 2,3 , 8 million the amount not declared to the treasury. The singer, who will have to enter prison before July 60.000 if she does not appeal the sentence, has also been sentenced to another year of probation and to pay a fine of $ XNUMX, in addition to the payment of a million dollars that claimed the Treasury.
Before the sentence was known, Hill's lawyer assured the local press that his client had already paid more than $ 970.000 that she owed in federal and state taxes. Hill, who went on to sell more than twelve million copies of his first solo album "The Miss Education of Lauryn Hill" (1998), for which he won ten Grammy nominations, began his musical career with rapper Wyclef Jean in the trio The Fugees. At 37, the singer had been retired from the world of music for three years in her hometown of South Orange (New Jersey), focused on taking care of her six children, five of them the result of her relationship with Rohan Marley, son of the legendary Bob Marley, from whom he parted ways two years ago.
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