Rapper Lauryn Hill Begins 3-Month Tax Evasion Prison Sentence
Grammy Award-winning singer and The Fugees member Lauryn Hill enters prison on Monday as she begins to serve a three-month sentence for tax evasion.
Hill was found guilty for failing to pay her federal income taxes from 2005 to 2007. The amount estimates to more than $1.8 million.
According to the U.S. attorney's office, the income in question were paid to the companies she owned from 2005 to 2008, which came from music and film royalties.
The prosecutor also said that the sentence given "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."
She will be confined at the Federal Correctional Institution of Danbury, a minimum security facility. The facility is an open dormitory-style living quarters where inmates are expected to work in maintenance, food service or landscaping.
After serving her time in jail, the musician will also be under house arrest for three months.
Hill, 38, started her music career with The Fugees as a teenager in the 1990s. She released her solo multiplatinum album in 1998 titled The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.