American Idol Fantasia Barrino being sued for $25,000
Fantasia Barrino, American Idol winner from 2004, had a very overwhelming past few days. She announced during a charity concert in Florida that she is pregnant. Her manager has been denying the pregnancy rumors, and claimed the weight gain was for a movie role.
Now a bank is suing her for more than $25,000 for unnamed reasons. It has been reported she owes the bank $25,057.02 plus 10% interest from back in 2009.
This is not the first time Fantasia has been in financial trouble. The Grammy Award winner nearly lost her home in a foreclosure. She saved the home by making a payment just in time.
She purchased the home in 2007 for $1.3 million dollars. The property is a 6-bed, 6,000-sq. ft. mansion. Her relative claimed this was all a misunderstanding because Fantasia was not able to make the court hearing. At that time, she was accused of defaulting on $58,000 of the loan.
Actress Marlee Matlin owes IRS $50,000, plans to sell her house
Marlee Matlin, 45, just confirmed that she owes the IRS $50,000 in back taxes.
To pay off the debt, the award-winning actress plans to sell her home in Pasadena, Calif., and take her four children out of private school.
Sounds like she’s serious.
Matlin stated, “I’m paying it back. I’m not shying away from it and I’m certainly not ashamed of it. It doesn’t mean I’m a bad person. It’s reality. It’s the reality that a lot of people in America are facing.”
Regardless of her Hollywood status, Matlin remarked that the debt did not come from living a lavish lifestyle.On the contrary, she signed said, “Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.”
The 2,607 square-foot home has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and is currently listed for $899,000.
Maitlin is a deaf actress best known for her lead role in the 1987 film “Children of a Lesser God” and made appearances in television shows such as “Dancing With the Stars,” “Seinfeld,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Picket Fences.”
She is currently a contestant on this season’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Nicolas Cage So Drunk He Forgot His Address
Nicholas Cage, 47, was arrested on Saturday in New Orleans. It was reported that he was so intoxicated he forgot where he lived. Cage allegedly pulled his wife, Alice Kim, by the arm to the home he thought was their rental. Kim was trying to explain that wasn’t their home. This is what caused an onlooker to call the police.
The police report reads, “The actor then began striking vehicles and later attempted to get into a taxi.” At that point, an officer who had been flagged down by onlookers drove up on the couple, immediately observed that Cage was heavily intoxicated and ordered him out of the cab, which prompted Cage to start yelling. “Why don’t you just arrest me?” The officers again told Cage to go home, and Cage allegedly dared them to arrest him again.
He was then detained on one count of disturbing the peace and one count on domestic abuse. Later, he was released on $11,000 bail.
Cage just keeps sinking further down with his already domestic battery charge and a $14 million tax bill-despite his $40 million salary last year.
Cage had six homes foreclosed on and four federal tax liens filed against his properties in three different states.
Celebrity tax evaders who owe the IRS money
Most Americans are scrambling across the United States to get their taxes filed before the deadline expires. Some filthy-rich celebrities, meanwhile, likely are not as concerned, feeling as though they are too awesome and untouchable to be bothered.
This year, procrastinators have three extra days to delay the inevitable with the deadline being pushed to April 18 (not April 15) in honor of Emancipation Day. With this extension, perhaps it can help those celebrities who have been getting themselves in financial trouble throughout the year.
But let’s not get too crazy.
That’s because history proves that certain celebrities have been caught with their hands in the IRS’s cookie jar. Whether its foreclosure, tax evasion or straight up defiance, the seemingly rich and famous are not immune to the financial troubles that affect us poor common folk.
Some celebrities probably think they’re slick and can outsmart the IRS. Anything is possible, but the celebrities mentioned below definitely are not among them:
Teresa Giudice ‘humiliated’ about bankrupcty, denies ‘desperate’ foreclosure rumors … sorta
Teresa Giudice insists that she and her husband Joe are not really in foreclosure, not when it comes to the $4 million mansion they own in Towaco, N.J., anyway.
Nope, that’s just lies I tell you, lies! And you can blame the evil dark empress Danielle (once again) for spreading that nonsense (and whatever else).
But not so fast …
The admittedly “humiliated” bankrupt Italian fireplug tells In Touch Weekly that it’s their investment properties that are on the verge of being raffled off on the courthouse steps.
Oh, we feel so much better. And we’re sure the bank that currently holds the note is completely reassured, too.
Nonetheless, Guidice, who stars as herself on the hit Bravo-produced reality show “Real Housewives of New Jersey” as a loud-mouthed, free-spending, sex-craving mother of four daughters, reveals that she has learned from her mistakes and plans to change her ways.
For starters, Joe will now be in charge of the family finances, “doing all the grocery shopping and imposing a limit on Teresa’s credit cards.”
Brilliant!
Tune in to see how long that lasts … if at all.
