Lauryn Hill Pleads Guilty To Not Paying Her Taxes For 3 Damn Years
While dressed like Susan from Sesame Street, Lauryn Hill walked into a court room in Newark, NJ this morning and pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion and admitted to a judge that she purposefully didn't pay any taxes in 2005, 2006 or 2007. Bitch is that bold.
The company that Lauryn owns made $818,000 in 2005. Did Lauryn go down to H&R Block to pay taxes on that shit like the rest of us do? Nope. Lauryn made $222,000 in 2006. Did she log onto Turbo Tax to pay that taxes on that shit? Nope. Lauryn also didn't pay taxes on the $761,000 she made in 2007. Lauryn didn't pay any taxes, because she says it was her way of protesting against the man. Three weeks ago, Lauryn took a break from not making a follow-up to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and wrote a rambling explanation on Tumblr for why she told the IRS to eat a fuck for three years in a row. Lauryn's thesis was just a pile of crazy and I swear she co-wrote it with Randy Quaid. Here's a piece of it:
I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities, but I did however put my safety, health and freedom and the freedom, safety and health of my family first over all other material concerns! I also embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival.
I conveyed all of this when questioned as to why I did not file taxes during this time period. Obviously, the danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.
My intention has always been to get this situation rectified. When I was working consistently without being affected by the interferences mentioned above, I filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
The Associated Press says that Lauryn will be sentenced in November and she could get up to 3 years in the clink and have to pay up to $75,000 in fines.
Lauryn wasn't hiding underground for those three years. Lauryn is acting like she lived in a tent on Native American land and only ate food shipped in from Mexico, because she didn't want to give the US any of her money. Lauryn was out there performing, making more cash. Isn't there somebody in Lauryn's life who could've reeled in her crazy and told her just to blame the tax issue on her accounting department. That's what I always do. When bill collectors call, I just say, "Oh, those dumb shits in accounting screwed up again. Let me transfer you," and then I hang up. Lauryn should've done that and paid a few fines.
Oh well, I guess if Lauryn goes to the chokey, she can finally write a full album while in there. Yeah, right.
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@ blueberry_pye on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 1:31am.
DAMN! You took the words right outta my mouth! Lauryn is a beautiful, brilliant, TALENTED woman period! & if you take the time to read her lil rant, she makes complete sense. I love this woman!! If she dropped an album right now, Id def be first in line to cop that ish!!
and to whomever called her crazy, and racist, ever stop to think of how the media (elite) switches things around to their advantage to ruin someones reputation because said person isnt doing exactly what they wanted them to.. El boogie was sick of being a puppet and cut the strings, if that makes her crazy to you so be it. I think it makes her a hero, and living legend. Its like another poster on here said, she got to the end of the yellow brick road and saw what was behing the curtain, and said fuck all this!!!! More power to her.
all of these "she's a crazy bitch who should pay her taxes" posts remind me of the dave chappelle interview with james lipton.
calling someone crazy is dismissive. just because you don't understand where she's coming from, doesn't make her crazy.
i figure she's got a pretty good grasp on how the industry works, seeing as how she was the darling after Miseducation came out. Remember all those Grammy's she won? she got to OZ and saw the man behind the curtain. good on her for coming back from that.
she knows how the game works, and she knows it'a harmful to artists/creative people. therefore, she dropped out. simple.
as dave chappelle also kept saying in the interview, "AFRICA!"
and, when you pay taxes your money goes to the military industrial complex. just because you don't make as much money as her and you pay into this fraudulent system, doesn't mean she has to.
she's got convictions. she is to be admired, IMHO.
How can you be a non-white person be racist? Eh. Is it me do all white people mash up the terms racism, prejudice and bigotry into one and come out with non-meaning just to include themselves?
ATTENTION WHITE PEOPLE:: nobody can be "racist" towards you because you are not the minority in all things winning! Maybe you can tart shedding tears in 2050! Until then, soak up your white privilege that you can't see cause you didn't take any Socioligy, History or Culutral Studies classes in ollege and prefer to ignore the world around you.
And if one more white person says "Hey girl" to me I'm gonna pop em in their funny bone!!!
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Submitted by how dare you on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 5:58am.
Submitted by LASux on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:51am.
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Thank you. Whenever anything bad happens to a black celebrity, it turns into a racial issue and I'm sick of it. Using the race card as a way to avoid responsibility takes away from real racial issues.
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Silly rabbit.
She's dressed like a Jehiovah's Witness.
Submitted by QuweenJillian on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 6:11pm.
And how ironic is it that the taxpayers will have to pay for prison for the people who refuse to pay their taxes...
Yes!!! Can't stand that attitude of "Well I don't believe in paying taxes and I don't want to so I'm not gonna"...then quit driving your car on the roads that taxes built, quit sending your kids to schools that taxes support, and quit screwing the system in general.
Lindsay Lohan's costar's nalgas flew her so close to the sun that they both exploded into stardust that still lights up Hollywood.
you are all wrong. she totally looks like bud from the cosby show.
She has been batshit crazy for years now.
Bitch looks like Diana Ross in The Wiz.
music royalties is where the money's at.
Broadway composer Andrew Lyoyd Webber is a BILLIONAIRE.
Submitted by LASux on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:51am.
She should of put a plug in her dugout and stopped shooting out kids instead of stopping to file taxes. She's a racist and still thinks she's owed 40 acres & a mule. Black celebs can't handle money OR being on time.
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Generalizing like that is wrong, IMO. Wesley Snipes and Lauryn Hill are hardly representative of "black celebs" in general and their ability or lack thereof to handle money.
Donald Trump, a white dude, has filed bankruptcy on numerous occasions under various corporate names. Nic Cage -- well, we all know.
Fiscal irresponsibility among celebrities is not skewed toward any particular ethnicity/race.
I interviewed her back in the Fugee day and girl was entitled, racist, downright arrogant and worst of all BORING.
She should of put a plug in her dugout and stopped shooting out kids instead of stopping to file taxes. She's a racist and still thinks she's owed 40 acres & a mule. Black celebs can't handle money OR being on time.
You know, the only way I can rationalize this sort of thing is that the celebrities figure that since the prez and most government sections (example, police) bend over and present their backsides, the IRS will as well. Not a safe assumption.
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Submitted by stake_spike on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 11:32pm.
Someone linked to something a while back that talked about "solo" artists versus bands, if that's a distinction in your friend's case.
The AP article MK links to says the money was earned by 4 corporations that Hill owns.
ETA: An article about songwriter's income: http://blog.startmysong.com/2010/01/02/songwriting-how-much-money-can-i-...
Hill's imdb page credits her with songwriter and performer in 2005-2007 for Surf's Up, Block Party, and Rize.
But the real question in all this is how the fuck did she make all that money? Miseducation was released in '98? Royalties don't make you that much coin (a friend of mine said he doesn't make shit off of his and they play his stuff on tv).
Submitted by FabulousDivaBuns on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 10:59pm.
R Kelly owes them 4.8 million dollars is an accused sex offender took credit for a song that wasn't his which is the only reason he's actually famous ( I believe I can Fly) and he sucks. I used to wait tables at a kids restaurant when he was popular and he used to come in all the time. Total sick bastard. The Gov't targets people just like Wesley Snipes and his tax case. These people have children you can't give them an ankle bracelet but you can give one to Lilo and co? Give me a break! If I was black I wouldn't pay taxes either.
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I'm confused. What does R. Kelly have to do with the government targeting Wesley Snipes?
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Silly rabbit.
I know a few crazies who are always spouting about how it's illegal and unconstitutional to make them pay taxes so this didn't sound all that crazy to me.
It sounds like Hill was ahead of her time: the Tea Party didn't come to be until 2009. The miseducation, indeed...
i wouldn't say completely untalented. she had a beautiful singing voice.
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R Kelly owes them 4.8 million dollars is an accused sex offender took credit for a song that wasn't his which is the only reason he's actually famous ( I believe I can Fly) and he sucks. I used to wait tables at a kids restaurant when he was popular and he used to come in all the time. Total sick bastard. The Gov't targets people just like Wesley Snipes and his tax case. These people have children you can't give them an ankle bracelet but you can give one to Lilo and co? Give me a break! If I was black I wouldn't pay taxes either.
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What the hell is she wearing?
FREE L BOOGIE!!
This is the look! She's totally channeling Chip Fields from the 70s Spider-Man tv show. Google her you'll see, it's uncanny!
Holy crap- Black really don't crack! *gets on hands and knees and thanks the angels above for this melanin*
All Black Erythang- no Euros
Dumbass. Pay up, betch.
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Jeezuz Christ, you can't smoke as much weed as this chick and then be expected to fill out fucking tax forms. That is unAmerican.
I would just make her buy the first glock for a bunch of school kids in brooklyn and call it even.
The rest of us paid and we make a fraction of what you make! Pay up!
I can understand the Average Joe evading taxes successfully; but someone in the public eye? That is some Wesley Snipes level dumbassery.
Fugly.
How ya doing, gurl crush?
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Submitted by charlie loves tiger on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 8:14pm.
I want to know how this happens. It is amazing. Do you people not think the IRS is going to track you in your income bracket? It is like the stupid assholes who kill someone and think they are actually going to get away with it. Sometimes I sincerely wonder if they are just plain stupid.
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Ego. No one would dare nail them because of who they are or who they think they are.
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Unfortunately, Lauryn is not the first, the last nor the worst offender of not paying their taxes! Wonder if she'll actually do any time in jail? I'd be for charging her exorbitantly high fines and penalties PLUS the taxes. Hit them where it hurts the most, their assets and royalties!
"Oh, those dumb shits in accounting screwed up again. Let me transfer you" - OLOLOLOLOL MK! ;p
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I want to know how this happens. It is amazing. Do you people not think the IRS is going to track you in your income bracket? It is like the stupid assholes who kill someone and think they are actually going to get away with it. Sometimes I sincerely wonder if they are just plain stupid.
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I can't with this bitch. So much nothing. Never got her at all. Just a pretty girl playing "militant". She and Sinead should do a two-woman batshit crazy tour.
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Submitted by mefunigirl on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 7:53pm.
It takes a couple of years for them to catch up to you, BUT when they do, they will have started the clock in the late payment/interest fees as of day one so the amount you owe racks up immensely, which may very well be their plan all along.
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You know, after I posted, I thought something similar. Sinister bastards.
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"While dressed like Susan from Sesame Street"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! The Miseducation of Lauren Hill is still a great record.
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Gene Roddenberry actually wrote lyrics to the STAR TREK theme---cause there was more money to be had from the music than from the repeats, thanks to usual Hollywood accounting.
By writing lyrics, Roddenberry was able to rip off the STAR TREK composer by 50 percent!
Yawn. Just another self-entitled human.
Never liked her. She's an untalented, narcissistic bitch who thought she was above the law. No, not even that. She just doesn't give a crap about following the law.
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Submitted by QueenieBK on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 7:35pm.
How does this happen? I thought the IRS were a bunch of hardcore ninja assholes who got up your ass the second your taxes weren't paid? I'm not passing judgment, I don't get it is all. Probably because I'm married to an accountant who is anal about taxes.
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It takes a couple of years for them to catch up to you, BUT when they do, they will have started the clock in the late payment/interest fees as of day one so the amount you owe racks up immensely, which may very well be their plan all along.
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The latest in a long line of plagerism lawsuits aginst Jimmy Page, with prior winners getting credits on songs; latest re DAZED AND CONFUSED.
Lots of youtube videos about Jimmy Page being a thief.
Joan Baez perfomed BABE I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU years before Page took credit for the song!
http://youtu.be/tiiY4ciKFQA
Howard Stern even got in on the story:
http://youtu.be/Cdr8PtUPIPo
*sigh* She needs to get up off her ass and pay her taxes. If those of us who earn a fraction of what she does can find a way to pay ours, so can she. I'm tired of millionaire celebrities whinging about the government not doing enough to help the sick & the poor and then opting out of the system.
Mick Taylor quit the rolling stones after he found out he wasnt given credit for some songs he wrote.
Marianne Faithful wrote "Sister Morphine"---and had to wait a couple decades to get credit for it.
Jimmy Page is a major plagerist, taking credit for songs that were written and performed by others in the early 1960s.
And the Beatles came up with TAXMAN---cause they hated paying high British taxes.
How does this happen? I thought the IRS were a bunch of hardcore ninja assholes who got up your ass the second your taxes weren't paid? I'm not passing judgment, I don't get it is all. Probably because I'm married to an accountant who is anal about taxes.
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"Dressed like Susan from Sesame Street.
LMAO! MK always nails things like that.
And bitch, pay yo taxez. We all have to.
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Then we’ll grow up take our clothes off
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And then we can do anything we want
Can't stand this psycho bitch, never could.
I'm too tired to read her rationalization. pay your taxes like the rest of us, asshole.
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