By Victor Enengedi
American grammy-award winning artiste, Lauryn Hill may soon be on her way to prison for tax evasion if judges refuse to listen to her plea.
According to reports from TMZ, the one time member of the multi-platinum selling group, The Fugees, just filed legal documents asking for leniency before her sentencing on April 22, 2013, claiming there was a good reason she failed to file tax returns between 2005 to 2007 when she earned a total of more than $1.8 million.
Hill claimed she left mainstream society during the 2000s in protest over its climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism, ageism and real threats to herself and her family.
Although she’s not specific about the threats, but it’s a new explanation for her mysterious disappearance from the music scene after her rise to fame in the ’90s with ‘The Fugees’ and her critically acclaimed album The ‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’.
Lauryn’s asking the court to consider a bunch of other factors before her sentencing including her claim that she can pay off the debt much faster if she’s not behind bars.
Hill was charged in June 2012 for failing to file returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and pleaded guilty. She faces a maximum one-year sentence on each of three counts of tax evasion, plus fines.
In the US, tax evasion is a grave offence and some celebrities have not been spared by the hands of the law. Some of them include – Wesley Snipes, Marc Anthony, Chris Tucker, Snoop Lion, OJ Simpson and Nicolas Cage.
