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*Shemar Moore is in trouble with one of his exes over comments he made to BET.com recently. The actor opened up about his high-profile relationships with Halle Berry and Toni Braxton early in his career. But he opened up a little too much. “Toni was very upset over Shemar’s remarks,” an insider told the National Enquirer. “Shemar made it sound like Toni [...]
*Bob Marley’s son Rohan has offered his support to ex-girlfriend Lauryn Hill as she prepares for her upcoming prison stint, reports TMZ. Rohan says he will step up his parenting duties for their five children, ages five to 15, while Hill is serving three months in prison for tax evasion. The singer has been given [...]
*Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys sent letters of support to the judge overseeing Lauryn Hill’s tax evasion case in an attempt to keep her out of jail. On Monday (May 6), the former Fugees star was sentenced to serve three months in jail after pleading guilty to three charges of failing to file tax returns [...]
*When we reported Monday morning that Lauryn Hill paid off the balance of her back taxes prior to her court appearance, we thought she was going to beat the rap. Boy were we wrong, unfortunately. On Monday, the 37-year-old Grammy-winning singer was sentenced to three months in prison and an additional three months in home [...]
*Looks like Lauryn Hill will avoid jail time for her tax drama. The singer, who is scheduled for sentencing today on federal tax evasion charges, has paid off the balance of more than $900,000 she owed in back taxes and penalties, her attorney said on Sunday. Hill is scheduled for sentencing in U.S. District Court [...]
*Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing today in New Jersey on federal tax charges. The Grammy winning singer pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she owes. Hill said she [...]
*Lauryn Hill has built a reputation of being one of those weird artists that kind of fade in and out of the industry. Though her last (and only) solo album dropped in 1998, she’s still been active, making new music and challenging audiences world-wide at special live performances at Rock the Bells, Summer Jam and [...]
*Lauryn Hill has broken her silence on the tax evasion that may land her in jail, her reported new contract with Sony Music and the new music she says is in the pipeline. The ex-Fugee has posted a 353-word missive on her Tumblr page, in which she admits the media reports of her complicated set [...]
*A federal judge postponed Lauryn Hill’s tax evasion sentencing on Monday but not before scolding the eight-time Grammy-winning singer for reneging on a promise to make restitution by now. Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. At that time, her attorney said she would [...]
*Uncle Sam isn’t the only on after Lauryn Hill for back pay. The singer, who pleaded guilty last year to tax evasion and will be sentenced next week, is now wanted by her landlord after she reportedly stopped paying rent on her South Orange mansion. According to TMZ, she’s been given an eviction notice. As [...]
*Lauryn Hill says she didn’t bother to pay taxes for three years and stayed out of the public eye for so long because of threats to herself and her family. According to TMZ, the singer filed legal docs asking for mercy before her sentencing later this month, explaining why she failed to file tax returns [...]
*Bob Marley’s son Rohan Marley – who used to play for the Canadian Football League and has five children with Lauryn Hill – told TMZ recently that his later father would have loved Snoop Lion’s Rastafarian “reincarnation.” The Rastafarian Millennium Council previously chastised Snoop, (previously known as Snoop Dogg), saying he’s done nothing more than [...]
*Lauryn Hill is apologizing to her fans in Chicago who came out to see her perform on tour with Nas, only to experience some technical difficulties during her set. The former Fugees star was at Chicago’s Congress Theater last night, where sound troubles marred her performance so much that she took to Twitter to apologize. [...]
*Lauryn Hill got all turned up when the topic of Wyclef came up recently during a show in Dallas. The Hip Hop queen never really addressed her former flame’s series of Lauryn banter, including the Jerry Springer-like baby-daddy confusion over her first child Zion. But she finally let loose on the washed up Haitian singer/politician [...]
*Is Lauryn Hill really back? No, really back with those soul tingeing lyrics and political messages? The songstress kicked off her “Life is Good/Black Rage” tour with Nas on October 29th and it looks like it’s been a hit. The next stop on the tour is Dallas. Although she hasn’t released any new music since [...]
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