Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in jail for
tax evasion.
The 37-year-old star will spend a further three months in
home confinement after pleading guilty to failing to pay taxes on around
£1.2million of earnings between 2005 and 2007.
The mother of six – who admitted the charges in court last
year – told the judge at yesterday’s hearing that she’d intended to pay the
taxes but didn’t have the funds after quitting her career to raise her
children. In a statement inside the New Jersey courthouse, Hill compared
her plight to the slavery her ancestors were forced to endure.
She said: “I am a child of former slaves who had a
system imposed on them.
“I had an economic system imposed on me.”
In a controlled speech, Hill described how she’d
failed to pay taxes during a period after she’d quit the music industry.
The singer – who has had five children with Bob
Marley’s son Rohan – claimed she pulled the plug on her career to protect her
brood.
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