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Lauryn Hill has been forced to cancel tomorrow's acoustic London gig due to her "past legal situation."
Following her infamous UK tour last year (during which she regularly turned up over an hour late and performed remixed versions of her songs), the former Fugees member was due to play an acoustic set, dubbed Small Axe: Acoustic Performance Series, at the Shepherd's Bush Empire tomorrow (15 July.)
She's now posted a statement on Facebook cancelling the gig, saying, "I've been informed that I won't be able to enter the UK for a period of time due to my past legal situation."
Hello All,I've been informed that I won't be able to enter the UK for a period of time due to my past legal situation....
Posted by Ms. Lauryn Hill on Friday, 10 July 2015
The "legal situation" to which she is referring is her three month imprisonment for tax evasion back in 2013. After deciding to "withdraw from society" in order to escape pop culture's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism," Hill stopped paying tax on $1.8 million of income between 2005 and 2007.
She served three months in Danbury's minimum security prison before being released for three months of house arrest. She also fully paid back the $970,000 of taxes and penalties she owed, though she maintained, "I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me."
It's unclear why Hill's legal situation has become a problem now when she was able to enter the country, with the same criminal record, last year.
