Lauryn Hill Sentenced To three Months In Prison On Tax Evasion And Fraud[VIDEO]

Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for tax evasion. She was also sentenced to three additional months of home confinement. Hill pleaded guilty last year on three counts of tax evasion in Newark, N.J. after failing to pay tax on around $1.8million of her earnings between the years 2005 and 2007.

Hill had faced a maximum sentence of one year on each count. Her lawyer, who sought probation, said Monday that the 37-year-old songwriter paid more than $970,000 in overdue taxes. The singer will report to prison July 8. It is unclear where she will serve her sentence.  She has reportedly paid her debt in full, but it is too little, too late.

The Fugees star blamed the fact that she had left the public eye to raise her six children for her failure to pay her taxes.

"I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them," Hill said in court. "I had an economic system imposed on me."

Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing for her tax evasion charge on Monday, May 6 in New Jersey. Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying her federal taxes from 2005 to 2007. The total amount on which she failed to pay taxes is $1.8 million.

Two weeks ago, a judge reportedly told Lauryn Hill that she had only paid $50,000 of over $500,000 that she owes in back taxes. Judge Madeline Cox, who presided over Lauryn Hill's tax hearing on April 22, postponed Hill's sentence and set the May 6 deadline for the full repayment of Hill's liability.

Hill recently explained her situation in a Tumblr post, in which she claimed that she had signed a record contract with Sony to help pay the owed sum. Hill released a song over the weekend on iTunes, reportedly to help make the legal deadline on her tax case.

The song that Hill released over the weekend was a rare treat; Hill hasn't released much music since her 1998 debut with "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." The song can be heard below!

Reuters reported that Hill's attorney, Nathan Hochman, said in an email, "Ms. Hill has not only now fully paid prior to sentencing her taxes, which are part of her criminal restitution, but she has additionally fully paid her federal and state personal taxes for the entire period under examination through 2009."

O make matters worse for the artist, Lauryn Hill was evicted from her New Jersey mansion by her landlord because she wasn't paying her rent.

Hill, The eight-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter was ousted from the South Orange mansion she's been living in since 2009. 

Her personal financial struggles have made headlines since last year when the "Killing Me Softly" songstress entered a guilty plea to three counts of tax fraud in June, admitting she intentionally failed to file tax returns in 2005, 2006 and 2007. She allegedly earned more than $1.6 million over that time. And now her frugal ways have caught up to her.

The mother of six claimed that threats to her family were the reason she did not pay her rent.

The 37 year old singer's from South Orange, where she currently resides hit it big with her 1998 album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," which earned five Grammy Awards.

Her last album was released in 2001 and since then the multiplatinum artist took time off in 2008 to concentrate on family.

In 2010 the former Refugee member went on to make a handful of public appearances, including 2011's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, New York's Rock the Bells concert and an appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

She hasn't been seen around for almost two years but is making an appearance, but not a very glamorous one, behind bars.  The MIA songwriter now has plenty of time to orchestrate some new music for her fans.