Lauryn Hill Prison: Singer Sentenced To 3 Months In Federal Prision For Tax Evasion

Singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in a federal prison for evading over $900,000 in taxes.

Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of Newark, N.J, decided the singer must report to prison on July 8 to begin her sentence, followed by three months of home confinement and a year of probation. Hill will also have to add to her debt to the government a $60,000 fine.

On her defense pledge, Hill told the judge she was planning on paying her taxes, but did not know when. The judge replied citizens don't get to choose when to pay the government right before pronounce the sentence.

Hill said she lives very modestly considering how much money her music gave other people. The 16 million records she's sold in her career have made around $600 million. "This was not a life of jet setting glamour. This was a life of sacrifice with very little time for myself and my children," she added.

That money came from music and film royalties paid to companies she owned between 2005 and 2008.

Hill pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million between 2005 and 2007.

"I think the judge gave a fair and reasonable sentence," Hill's lawyer Nathan Hochman told CNN.

Hill, who rose to fame with the hip hop band "Fugees" in the 90s and later released a Grammy-winning solo album, hasn't written new music since 1998.

Listen below to her major hit "Doo Woop (That Thing)."

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