Lauryn Hill pleads for leniency in tax evasion case
Published: 2013 April 16 07:59:16 (3544 Views)
Lauryn Hill recently filed court documents seeking leniency in her upcoming sentencing for tax evasion claiming she skipped out on her taxes due to the perceived threats and because of her overall withdrawal from society.
The 37-year-old former singer for the Fugees previously pleaded guilty for failing to file tax returns from 2005 to 2007, a period when she earned $1.8m.
The Killing Me Softly singer stopped paying taxes 'when she withdrew from society at large due to what she perceived as manipulation and very real threats to herself and her family,' according to court documents obtained by TMZ.
Hill also has asked the court to consider other factors before her sentencing, including her contention that she can pay off her debt faster if she's not imprisoned.
Hill was charged in June 2012 for failing to file returns with the Internal Revenue Service and pleaded guilty.
She faces a maximum one-year sentence on each of three counts of tax evasion, plus fines.
In a lengthy post on her Tumblr page last June, Hill claimed she left mainstream society during the 2000s in protest over its 'climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism.'
Hill said she also 'embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival.'
She launched her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Hill largely disappeared from public view starting about 2000 and has been raising her six children. Five of her children are with Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley.
A judge was expected act on Hill's request for leniency on April 22.
- Daily Mail
The 37-year-old former singer for the Fugees previously pleaded guilty for failing to file tax returns from 2005 to 2007, a period when she earned $1.8m.
The Killing Me Softly singer stopped paying taxes 'when she withdrew from society at large due to what she perceived as manipulation and very real threats to herself and her family,' according to court documents obtained by TMZ.
Hill also has asked the court to consider other factors before her sentencing, including her contention that she can pay off her debt faster if she's not imprisoned.
Hill was charged in June 2012 for failing to file returns with the Internal Revenue Service and pleaded guilty.
She faces a maximum one-year sentence on each of three counts of tax evasion, plus fines.
In a lengthy post on her Tumblr page last June, Hill claimed she left mainstream society during the 2000s in protest over its 'climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism.'
Hill said she also 'embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival.'
She launched her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Hill largely disappeared from public view starting about 2000 and has been raising her six children. Five of her children are with Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley.
A judge was expected act on Hill's request for leniency on April 22.
- Daily Mail
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