{"id":21090,"date":"2013-05-09T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21090"},"modified":"2013-05-09T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:37:40","slug":"lauryn-hill-gets-3-months-for-failing-to-pay-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21090","title":{"rendered":"Lauryn Hill Gets  3 Months For Failing  To Pay Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, New Jersey \u2014 Grammy-winning singer <strong>Lauryn Hill<\/strong> was sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hill<\/strong>, 37, pleaded guilty last year in the case. During a forceful statement to the judge Monday, <strong>Hill <\/strong>explained she had always meant to eventually pay the taxes, but was unable to during a period of time when she dropped out of the music business, echoing a defense she wrote last year in a long post online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d <strong>Hill <\/strong>said Monday, without explaining what exactly triggered her actions. Before the sentencing, her attorney had said <strong>Hill<\/strong> had paid more than $970,000 to satisfy the state and federal tax liabilities. <strong>Hill<\/strong> had faced a maximum sentence of one year each on three counts. Her attorney had sought probation. It\u2019s not clear when or where she\u2019d report to prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hill<\/strong> got her start with <strong>The Fugees<\/strong> and began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album \u201c<em>The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0She then largely disappeared from public view to raise her six children, five of whom she had with <strong>Rohan Marley<\/strong>, the son of reggae singer <strong>Bob Marley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, New Jersey \u2014 Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. Hill, 37, pleaded guilty last year in the case. During a forceful statement to the judge Monday, Hill explained she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}