IRS Files $63G Tax Lien Against Naomi Campbell

Supermodel Naomi Cambell is the latest celebrity to get in to trouble with the IRS. Cambell recently had a $63,000 lien filed against her for unpaid taxes. She was already in the headlines for a testimony in the trial of warlord Charles Taylor.

FoxNews.com reports:

Naomi Campbell might wish she'd kept one of those "blood diamonds" from Liberian warlord Charles Taylor to pay her taxes.

According to tax watchdog Robert Snell, the IRS filed a $63,487 lien against her last month with the New York City Register's office for taxes assessed in 2009.

Her flack in London didn't get back to us for comment.

Campbell was forced to testify recently at Taylor's war crimes trial at The Hague about receiving some "dirty-looking stones" one night in 1997 when she was a guest in South Africa of Nelson Mandela.

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Wesley Snipes Loses Appeal in Tax Case

Last Friday it was reported that Actor Wesley Snipes would indeed have to serve jail time for tax evasion, after he lost his appeal. For those of you who might have forgotten, Snipes was sentenced to serve three years in prison for failing to file tax returns for 1999 through 2001.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the 47-year-old actor's 2008 conviction in an Ocala, Florida, court for three misdemeanors stemming from felony tax charges.

At his sentencing in April 2008, prosecutors said Snipes, a Florida native who has a residence in Windermere, had earned more than $38 million since 1999, but had filed no tax returns or paid any taxes.

New Orleans Saints Dispute IRS Claims

As a result of a report from Forbes magazine accusing the New Orleans Saints of avoiding income taxes on an $8.5 million payment from the state of Louisiana, the team has asserted in tax court that they are not guilty of tax avoidance. According to USA Today, the team’s lawyers claimed the payment was nontaxable "working capital" and was part of 10 years of "inducement payments" given to the team.

Forbes reported that the lawsuit claimed the money was intended to help the team "acquire additional and higher-priced player contacts" to make the team "more competitive in the NFL."

The Saints reached a long-term deal to remain in the Superdome in 2009.

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Wesley Snipes' Lawyers want to Adjust Appeal Request After Adviser's Arrest

From SF Gate.com:

Wesley Snipes' attorneys are requesting that judicial officials in Georgia dismiss their petition appealing the actor's tax evasion conviction following the arrest of his former financial adviser.

The "Blade" star was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax return in 2008. He is currently free pending an appeal to reduce a three-year prison sentence on U.S. federal tax charges.

Meanwhile, Snipes' one-time accountant, celebrity investor Kenneth Starr, was busted in May and accused of embezzling a massive $30 million from stars including the action star, Uma Thurman and Martin Scorsese.

Starr has been charged with wire fraud, investment adviser fraud and money laundering amid claims he used the stolen cash to buy a luxurious Manhattan apartment.

Snipes' lawyers are hoping Starr's arrest will help the actor's own case, and they filed papers in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Wednesday, asking for judges to ignore their petition for an appeal.

Instead, Snipes' attorneys want to lodge a new petition asking to have the star's conviction dismissed, or set up a new trial on the grounds that the actor was the victim of a "miscarriage of justice."

Former N'Sync Member J.C.Chasez in Tax Trouble

From Examiner.com:

N'Sync was once one of the hottest boy bands around and J.C. Chasez was one-fifth of the members, which also included Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick. You would think the guys would've walked away from that deal without a financial worry in the world.

Apparently for J.C. Chasez, that is not the case. The America's Best Dance Crew judge just had a lien filed against him by the state of Mississippi accusing him of owing $206,965 in delinquent taxes.