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"Lauryn Hill has responded publicly to her recent charges for major tax evasion.  The singer-songwriter was charged earlier this week for failing to file tax returns in 2005, 2006 and 2007, despite making over $1.5 million during those years from music royalties.  Hill responded to the charges in a Tumblr post on Friday (June 8), saying that she stopped paying her taxes in order to protect the safety of her young children.  She wrote: &amp;quot;I left a more mainstream and public life, in order to wean both myself, and my family, away from a lifestyle that required distortion and compromise as a means for maintaining it.&amp;quot; If convicted, Hill could face up to three years in prison as well as a $500,000 fine.  The former Fugees singer rose to fame in 1999 with her Grammy Award-winning album The Mis-Education of Lauryn Hill. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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