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Lauryn Hill performs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute concert honoring Aretha Franklin on November 5, 2011. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images for Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame)

Lauryn Hill's last show before prison?

Ida Siegal, NBC New York
NBC New York - Lauryn Hill may have performed her final concert before going to jail for tax evasion...
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Eric Holder

Eric Holder grilled by House committee

Pete Yost, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder was due to testify before Congress on Wednesday as the Justice Department opens a criminal investigation of the federal tax collection agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
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Lauren Hill departs the court on May 6, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Hill plead guilty to tax evasion charges in June 2012 for failure to pay federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005-2007. She faces a maximum one-year jail sentence for each of the three accounts. The sentencing date was postponed from April 22nd. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)

Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder pen letters to judge on Lauryn Hill's behalf

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - Grammy Award winning singers Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder penned letters to a New Jersey judge on behalf of fellow Grammy winner Lauryn Hill, who plead guilty to tax evasion...
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Lauryn Hill arrives at court on May 6, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Hill plead guilty to tax evasion charges in June 2012 for failure to pay federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005-2007. She faces a maximum one-year jail sentence for each of the three accounts. The sentencing date was postponed from April 22nd. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)

Lauryn Hill gets 3 months for failing to pay taxes

David Porter, Associated Press
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.
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Lauryn Hill to be sentenced today

Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing Monday in New Jersey on federal tax charges...
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Lauryn Hill is seen leaving court after the judge postpones her sentencing and gave her two weeks to pay back taxes April 22, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Hill pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges in June 2012 for failure to pay federal taxes on USD 1.8 million earned from 2005-2007. She faces a maximum one-year jail sentence for each of the three accounts. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

Lauryn Hill takes on her critics in Tumblr post

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - On the heels of tax evasion reports becoming public, Lauryn HIll took to her personal Tumblr page to publish her thoughts on the matter...
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Lauryn Hill is seen leaving court after the judge postpones her sentencing and gave her two weeks to pay back taxes April 22, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Hill pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges in June 2012 for failure to pay federal taxes on USD 1.8 million earned from 2005-2007. She faces a maximum one-year jail sentence for each of the three accounts. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

Lauryn Hill has 2 weeks to pay $504,000 in taxes

David Porter. Associated Press
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - 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...
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Lauryn Hill performs during Day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2011 held at the Empire Polo Club on April 15, 2011 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Lauryn Hill pleads guilty in New Jersey

David Porter, NBC New York
NBC New York - Eight-time Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has pleaded guilty in New Jersey to not paying federal taxes on more than $1.5 million earned over three years...
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The Tea Party 4 years later: Did it really change US?

Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News
NBC NEWS - When the Tea Party movement made its official debut on April 15, 2009, it made quite a political splash with events across the country protesting President Obama's policies on that Tax Day...
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Lauryn HillThe eight-time Grammy Award winner and South Orange, N.J., resident was charged with willfully failing to file income tax returnswith the IRS.  Federal prosecutors said she didn't pay taxes on more than $1.5 million earned in 2005, 2006 and 2007 from recording and film royalties. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Black stars in the red: Infamous tax cheats

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - In honor of 'Tax Day' we put together a slideshow of celebrities who have infamously found themselves in tax trouble.
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