Lauryn Hill Pleads Guilty in Tax Case

Lauryn Hill just pled guilty to a major federal crime … admitting she intentionally failed to file several tax returns in the past decade — and now the former Fugees singer faces 3 years in prison.

Hill pled guilty today to three counts of failure to file tax returns for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 — when she earned more than $1.8 million.

When the judge asked if Hill “intentionally and willingly” failed to file the returns, she replied, “Yes.”

In addition to the 3 years behind bars, Hill could be smacked with $75,000 in fines.

Hill was released on $150,000 bail. Her sentencing hearing is set for November.

Source… TMZ

I have no interest in seeing Tyler Perry’s ‘Witness Protection’

I think he hit his peak and should just start directing.  Honestly who wants to see a 6 foot 5 man running around the screen threading to bust someone’s @ss anymore lol!  Granted ‘Good Deeds’ needed a Madea character in it.  Anyways the film is supposedly getting not so great reviews.  Below is an example of what is being said.  By the way I didn’t even know Denise Richards is in this movie. Smdh…

Madea’s Witness Protection review: Protect us from Tyler Perry

As the incredibly awkward title suggests, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection is less a movie than it is an exercise in product branding.

It’s a product that has long passed its sell-by date, not that this matters to writer/director/producer Perry and his unaccountably loyal audience.

This is the seventh issue from the Madea franchise at Perry’s Atlanta film factory, wherein this 6-foot-5 male yet again dons fat padding, wig and glasses to play a sassy African-American matriarch.

Besides the title stereotype, Madea Simmons, Perry also plays her brother Joe, who lives and bickers with her in a large Atlanta home with unmown grass and pink flamingos out front. The unstoppable Perry also plays Joe’s son Brian, a federal prosecutor who’s just trying to do some good.

Any hope that Perry might be running out of ideas or steam is drowned out by the ka-ching! of his mighty Madea cash register, which has only its good nature going for it.

The sole inspiration he needed for this film was a news report about the arrest of Ponzi fund scammer Bernie Madoff. What if Madoff were put under the suspicious gaze of cantankerous Madea in her all-black neighbourhood?

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Tamar Braxton does PYNK Magazine

Is it the lighting or was she always this light?  I almost didn’t recognize her!

Mark Jackson extorted by stripper

Mark Jackson, former St. John’s and Knicks star, claims he was subject of blackmail scheme by ex-lover Alexis Adams (right).

“I recognize the extremely poor judgment that I used . . . in having an affair six years ago — including the embarrassing communication I exhibited during that time,” the Brooklynite said in a statement. “I made some egregious errors. . . . With deepest regret, I want to apologize to my church family. I was wrong. We must live holy.”

The Jacksons’ marriage survived, but Adams held on to the pictures like a time bomb while nursing a grudge against the one-time All Star.

In one message to Shaw before the shakedown, she exhorted him to “concentrate and f— (Jackson) up! he is a Fake ass man of god.”

Jackson was approached two months ago at a Memphis hotel by Shaw, 40. The suspect showed Jackson a folder with the damning photos and the CD.

Jackson quickly paid $5,000 cash and destroyed the materials — only to have his tormentor resurface two weeks later in a series of emails, officials said.

Jackson’s wife of 22 years was contacted next with a threatening message regarding the photos.

Read more: Daily News

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