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By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A U.S. magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine on Monday for federal tax evasion. Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million of income between 2005 and 2007 and faced up to three years in prison. Hill has attributed her failure to pay taxes to years of pressure she experienced as a recording star while raising six children, forcing her to go underground and stay out of the public ...
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Rita Marley has greenlit the first film based on the life of her late husband, reggae icon Bob Marley. Produced and distributed by the Weinstein Co., the biopic will be a silver screen version of
Rapper/actor Pras has said a Fugees reunion will never happen, thanks to Lauryn Hill. Speaking to Allhiphop.com Pras says: "Before I work with Lauryn Hill again, you will have a better chance of seeing Osama Bin Laden and [George W.] Bush in Starbucks having a latte, discussing foreign policies, before there will be a Fugees reunion. At this poi...


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