Grammy-winning R&B and former Fugees singer, Lauryn Hill, checked into prison late Monday morning for a 3-month prison sentence. Hill, a mother of six, was sentenced in May to three months in prison for tax evasion after she pleaded guilty last June for not paying taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007.
Earlier this year a judge reported that Hill had only paid $50,000 of more than $500,000 she owed in federal taxes, but according to Hill’s attorney Lauryn successfully paid her $900,000 debt in full back in May. Originally, Hill faced up to a year in prison on each of three counts of tax evasion in 2012, but was given a 3 month prison sentence, with an additional 3 months of house arrest, since she paid her bill in full thanks to a million dollar recording contract with Sony.
Lauryn will serve her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut and will be among the general population of inmates, as opposed to having an isolated stay that celebrities are sometimes given.
During her imprisonment, Rohan Marley, the father of five of Hill’s six children, told TMZ that he would “be there for my kids” while she serves her time in prison.
