Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months in jail for owing $1m

Lauryn Hill. Photo – idolbin

Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the last ten years. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo read the sentencing on Monday May 5, 2013.

Despite having paid more than $900,000 in the past days, Hill still owes interest and penalties, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Hill pleaded guilty last year to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8m which she earned from 2005 to 2007. Monday’s court seating highlighted unpaid state and federal taxes in 2008 and 2009 that brought the total earnings to about $2.3 million.

‘I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me’, Hill told Cox Arleo.

She is to report to prison by July 8. It’s not clear where she’ll serve her sentence.