The moral of this story is: Don't procreate and bear children with deadbeat losers like Rohan Marley, and never think a tax liability is a philosophical argument once you are delinquent.

After receiving her sentence, she expressed to the judge....

“I needed to be able to earn so I could pay my taxes, without compromising the health and welfare of my children, and I was being denied that. 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,” she continued. “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.

so,now she thinks that she is a "slave"

WTF?! You got six kids! Yeah you sold 50 million records but you couldn't pay $1 million in tax dollars! Common folks here struggle to pay $2,000! Fuck that shit.

SoulAlive said:

After receiving her sentence, she expressed to the judge....

“I needed to be able to earn so I could pay my taxes, without compromising the health and welfare of my children, and I was being denied that. 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,” she continued. “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.

Did the judge burst out in hysterical laughter? Well, he should have!

Identity said:

Did the judge burst out in hysterical laughter? Well, he should have!

He probably held his composure. I know what they say about making celebrities sound like nuts, but this is a nutso type of statement if I ever heard one in my life.

Oh that quote is gonna make this thread so much more FUN.

"What is I gonna do? I's can't go to prison! I's sold millions and millions of records! "

You know, since she's a child of former slaves and all.

''I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me.''

Translation: ''I'm an unrepentant tax dodger, up here making a complete ass of myself."

Man my mom was going off on this today

But it's true we common folk struggle to get every bit back we can and i work my ass off, make way less than Lauryn and pay my taxes on time no matter what even if it means i am eating ramen with and orange seeds for 4 days.

She really has become a clown and i respect her a lot less now... sad to see this.

I am also sorry to say this but her ''blame the white man'' excuse is utter bullshit now.

Facts is facts you were dumb and iressponsible this is LAURYN HILL'S fault not the white mans.

THE FUCK:

I said on FB she may be a schizo. This can explain that nutty enslaved comment.

Timmy84 said:

Wyclef made a banging new mixtape last week as y'all now.

He maybe have run his mouth over the years and yes he can be an ass but he is making some hot shit and L-boogie is making struggles.

I don't think the sentence was fair to Lauryn... given that she is undeniably batshit crazy. There should be mercy for the mentally ill. Her mouth got her into this entire situation. All she had to tell the IRS in the first place is that she was unaware or did not fully understand the tax problem and there would have been no criminal charges. The charges resulted from statements she gave during an audit about record company boogeyman and universal artists' rights. She had poor representation throughout the process. She needed someone to tell her when to STFU. Britney Spears is lucky to have her dad.

^ It's like a scholar who failed to pass a test.

Isn't Lauryn mentally ill?

Timmy84 said:

"What is I gonna do? I's can't go to prison! I's sold millions and millions of records! "

You know, since she's a child of former slaves and all.

Ya'll acting like an artist has never been ripped off by their record company before.

I'm not saying she didn't have the money. Then again I don't really know.

I think it was Prince that said he made more when he went independent then he did when he made Purple Rain for Warner Brothers.

She willfully failed to file tax returns for several years , and on the day of sentencing she still refused to accept responsibility. Are we supposed to feel for a wealthy tax evader? I sure don't.

CynicKill said:

Ya'll acting like an artist has never been ripped off by their record company before.

I'm not saying she didn't have the money. Then again I don't really know.

I think it was Prince that said he made more when he went independent then he did when he made Purple Rain for Warner Brothers.

What about her ripping off musicians by saying ''GOD will repay you'' and other bullshit instead of giving them cash.

[Edited 5/6/13 22:24pm]

''She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall," says Marley. "She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep."

''Another source says her association with a spiritual adviser, which began in the late '90s, "made everything go crazy. She'd say his preaching made her feel like what she did in her career was bad."

Though some longtime acquaintances say that she now greets them with blank stares and seems troubled and withdrawn, there are occasional glimmers of the old Lauryn Hill. Williams last saw her in 2005 in the studio. "When she started rapping, she smiled and laughed," he says. "I was like, 'That's L-Boogie!' But she wanted people to call her Ms. Hill." Right after that, Williams was told Hill no longer needed him. "Now she has this whole persona," he says, "and everyone is on pins and needles around her." Last year her old bandmate Wyclef Jean publicly voiced concerns about Hill's emotional stability. "When you're so successful, if you don't have one person around you that can talk some sense into [you]," he told PEOPLE, "it's over."

Honestly i will say it again homegirl is fucked up and a lot of it came from that ''spiritual advisor''

There have been many reports that he totally changed her mind on her own life, her music, and how to live.

Shit is seriously creepy

Cloudbuster said:

lazycrockett said:

BBC just reported old girl got 3 months in the pen.

God will help her out.

you cold cloud

Gunsnhalen said:

''She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall," says Marley. "She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep."

''Another source says her association with a spiritual adviser, which began in the late '90s, "made everything go crazy. She'd say his preaching made her feel like what she did in her career was bad."

Though some longtime acquaintances say that she now greets them with blank stares and seems troubled and withdrawn, there are occasional glimmers of the old Lauryn Hill. Williams last saw her in 2005 in the studio. "When she started rapping, she smiled and laughed," he says. "I was like, 'That's L-Boogie!' But she wanted people to call her Ms. Hill." Right after that, Williams was told Hill no longer needed him. "Now she has this whole persona," he says, "and everyone is on pins and needles around her." Last year her old bandmate Wyclef Jean publicly voiced concerns about Hill's emotional stability. "When you're so successful, if you don't have one person around you that can talk some sense into [you]," he told PEOPLE, "it's over."

Honestly i will say it again homegirl is fucked up and a lot of it came from that ''spiritual advisor''

There have been many reports that he totally changed her mind on her own life, her music, and how to live.

Shit is seriously creepy

That mentor or whatever fucked her up. Probably took her money too.

Identity said:

She willfully failed to file tax returns for several years , and on the day of sentencing she still refused to accept responsibility. Are we supposed to feel for a wealthy tax evader? I sure don't.

I have NO sympathy for celebrities who don't pay their taxes.

Identity said:

She willfully failed to file tax returns for several years , and on the day of sentencing she still refused to accept responsibility. Are we supposed to feel for a wealthy tax evader? I sure don't.

(CNN) -- Lauryn Hill told the judge who sentenced her to prison that she planned to pay her taxes; it was just a question of when.

The judge reminded her that citizens don't get to choose when to pay the government just before ordering her to spend three months in a federal prison.

The Grammy-winning singer must report to prison on July 8 to begin serving the sentence for failure to pay federal income taxes for three years, followed by three months of home confinement and a year of supervised probation, the judge said. Hill must also pay penalties and taxes still owed and a $60,000 fine.

Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million between 2005 and 2007.

The artist appeared Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, for sentencing.

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Hill told the judge she lives "very modestly" considering how much money her music -- she has sold 16 million records -- earned for other people.

"Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million," she said. "And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like slavery, I don't know what is."

"This wasn't a life of jet-setting glamour," she said. "This was a life of sacrifice with very little time for myself and my children."

The income in question was mostly from music and film royalties paid to companies she owned between 2005 and 2008, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

"Although Hill pleaded guilty to charges specifically related to those tax years, her sentence also takes into account additional income and tax losses for 2008 and 2009 -- when she also failed to file federal returns -- along with her outstanding tax liability to the state of New Jersey, for a total income of approximately $2.3 million and total tax loss of approximately $1,006,517," the prosecutor said.

Hill's lawyer, Nathan Hochman, told CNN that Hill has fully paid her taxes.

"I think the judge gave a fair and reasonable sentence," Hochman said.

Her lack of a prior criminal record and the fact that she has six minor children helped, he said.

"I think the government has let a number of celebrities off and never criminally prosecuted them, Willie Nelson being at least one example," he said. "I think that the court took that into account as well. Ms. Hill did not get a slap on the wrist and let off with just paying a certain amount of money but has had to go through this entire criminal prosecution."

Hill also used her sentencing to talk about her music.

"I didn't make music for celebrity status," she told the court. "I made music for artistic and existential catharsis, which was not just necessary for myself but it was also necessary for the generations of oppressed people who hadn't had their voices expressed like I was able to do it. Music is not something I do from 9 to 5. It's a state of being, and like a doctor who delivers babies, I'm on call all the time because that's the kind of work this is."

Hill revealed in a message posted to her Tumblr account last month that she's been working on new music.

"It has been reported that I signed a new record deal, and that I did this to pay taxes. Yes, I have recently entered into an agreement with Sony Worldwide Entertainment, to launch a new label, on which my new music will be released," Hill wrote. "And yes, I am working on new music."

Her fans have been waiting for new music from her since her 1998 solo album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

CNN's Doug Ganley contributed to this report.

[Edited 5/7/13 3:25am]

^^ it's amazing to me how,she STILL won't take responsibility She keeps listing reasons and excuses why she didn't pay her taxes...always blaming things on others.The government doesn't care about all that...they want their money!