Former Fugees frontwoman Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for tax evasion.
The R&B singer will spend a further three months under house arrest and nine months on supervised release once she is freed from federal prison.
At a hearing on Monday, a judge in Newark, Ne Jersey, ordered Hill to report to prison by July 8, 2013. The ruling came just one day after Hill’s lawyer confirmed the star had paid off more than 900,000 in tax debts, penalties and interest.
Last year, the singer pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to file her tax returns between 2005 and 2007.
During the hearing, Hill handed a bizarre statement to the judge, in which she compared her situation to slavery. It read: “I was put into a system I didn’t know the nature of… I’m a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me. She added, “I sold 50 million units… (and) now I’m up here paying a tax debt. If that’s not likened to slavery, I don’t know what is.”
source: WENN