Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Lauryn Hill blames slavery and blacklisting as she's sentenced to three months

Hill claimed to the judge that she dropped out of music for several years, leaving her unable to pay up. She later re-emerged and paid off $970,000 of tax debt. This 2011 file photo shows her at Coachella
Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill stood in federal court Monday and compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.
'I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them,' Hill said before U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo. 'I had an economic system imposed on me.'
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