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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 6:23 pm
Jennifer Lopez is about the open her personal life for a new television series on TLC, the cable channel announced Wednesday. The singer and new mom to twins will co-executive produce, co-create and star in the “docu-series,” which focuses on how Lopez juggles her career — including launching a new fragrance — with motherhood. “I’m looking forward to sharing this exciting journey together,” said Lopez. “Jennifer is unbelievably passionate about life and will be an incredible role model for our audience,” TLC President, Angela Shapiro-Mathes said in a statement. The series is currently in production. No air date has been revealed.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty. Snipes' lawyers had spent much of the day in court offering dozens of letters from family members, friends even fellow actors Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington attesting to the good character of the "Blade" star and asking for leniency. They argued he should get only probation because his three convictions were all misdemeanors and the actor had no previous criminal record.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Holy Cow 3 years. I think it sucks for any prosecutor to make an example of someone (except Richard Hatch LOL). I will write to him in prison, always wanted to have a prison pen pal.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 6:46 pm
I have to pay my taxes and if I didn't I'd probably go to prison. Sorry, but I'm not feeling much in the way of sympathy for Mr. Snipes.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 8:46 pm
I'm having trouble reconciling how JLo was all about the privacy thing (which I like and respect) when it came to her personal life from the day she and MA hooked up, and now this letting it all hang out for a reality show.... it is a bit bizarre to me. 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:11 pm
Three years is probably not inordinately punitive for somebody with three previous misdemeanor convictions. I don't know anything about his three previous convictions, what they were for, etc., but the possibility is that they started out as felonies and were disposed of as pleas to misdemeanors. Anybody know any details? The sentencing judge was probably privy to the details of the previous convictions. Certainly the presentencing report performed by U.S. Probation Dept. would contain details.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 4:47 am
If I didn't pay taxes and was sentenced to prison, would they be making an example out of me?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 6:00 am
Lol Maris me too. 3yrs seems excessive to me though. Heck some pedophiles don't get that long.
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Tvfreak
Member
04-09-2008
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 7:35 am
Well, you have to keep in mind they're probably giving him 3 years because he'll get time knocked off. So three years helps some time stick. All the same, I have ZERO sympathy. I have student loans that will take me 17 years to pay off and I still pay my taxes. Why can't he??
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 7:49 am
That's terrible. I hope he doesn't have to serve it.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:19 am
I just don't get all the sympathy. He makes millions of dollars. He should pay his taxes just like the rest of us. And no one is mentioning the fact that they didn't convict him for the FALSE report he filed. If the average Joe Blow didn't pay his taxes, would there be the same sympathy?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:12 am
The average Joe Blow probably wouldn't get 3yrs.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:23 am
i disagree, i think the average joe blow would get more. i actually know someone who got 10 years.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:27 am
Three previous convictions, whether misdemeanors or not, tells me that this man doesn't have any regard for the law. He was obviously living on the edge...unfortunately, the winds of the IRS blew him right off. People cheered when Martha Stewart went to prison.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:36 am
Didn't he run away to another country for a few years to avoid going to court? If so, that might have something to do with the sentencing. This has been going on for a very long time. I remember him being on the Howard Stern show over 5 years ago making jokes about it. But at the same time, he had accountants do his tax returns. Shouldn't they be somewhat liable for the tax returns he signed? I seem to remember that they had set him up in fake tax shelters to avoid paying taxes. Somebody please correct me if I am off the mark.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 11:05 am
Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has been arrested for an alleged assault. In the wee hours of April 23, the Grammy-winning "Rehab" singer allegedly headbutted a man outside a London pub. She voluntarily reported to a London police station on Friday to answer questions, and was arrested. "I can confirm that a 24-year-old woman has been arrested by appointment at a central London police station and is currently in custody," a Scotland Yard spokesman told PEOPLE. It is a policy in England to arrest a suspect before questioning her in connection to a possible crime. Winehouse has not been charged with anything. A 38-year-old man filed a report stating he was "headbutted" by Winehouse after trying to hail her a cab at 3:20 a.m. on April 23. According to a detailed account in the British paper The Sun, she also allegedly punched another man in the face and smoked drugs on the street.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:49 pm
I understood that he didn't even file a return for several years....big NO NO!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 1:38 pm
Yeah, ya just don't wanna mess with the IRS. They don't play.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 1:53 pm
A friend of mine messed with the IRS and got audited. She said her computer was for a home business--turns out you have to have a separate computer for that, plus probaby a lot of other proof. Anyway she saw an IRS agent in midtown and I thought they negotiated a fair price--like $3000 owed in back taxes. I guess for people who don't make much they are more forgiving.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 2:36 pm
I think if you are upfront with the IRS, they are willing to negotiate.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 2:53 pm
LOS ANGELES - The honeymoon is over for Gary Coleman and his new bride. The 40-year-old actor and his 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, are set to appear on TV's "Divorce Court" on May 1 and 2. The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy "Church Ball." Among the problems the pair discusses with Judge Lynn Toler are Coleman's anger and intimacy issues. Coleman and Price agree they have "ugly" monthly fights. "If he doesn't get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old does," Price says, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. "He like stomps the floor and yells, 'Meehhhh,' and starts throwing stuff around. He bashes his head in the wall, too." Coleman says he gets frustrated because "the male is always the bad guy." "When I try to state my case or explain things to her or try to get her to understand my point of view," Coleman says, "my point of view doesn't matter." Price also complains that Coleman has no friends and inexplicably disappears from home in the middle of the night. When Toler presses him, Coleman admits he is negative. "I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any," he says. "People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. (They're) only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you." Coleman went on to describe the couple's private life as "mediocre." "It's not her fault," he says. "I always feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders every day I get up. ... There are days I don't even want to get up." "Divorce Court" is a syndicated show on which couples appear to settle real divorce cases. The show's judge resolves issues such as alimony and asset division, and her decisions are legally binding. ___
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Won't go into details, but '91 was the first year you could file electronically. The "electronic" part of my filing got messed up (not by me). That year I NEEDED my refund. The IRS, especially a woman in the San Francisco office, was extremely helpful. And would you believe -- the previous (to current) IRS Commissioner is a personal acquaintance?!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:35 pm
I feel rather sad for Gary...
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 25, 2008 - 5:53 pm
Me too, JB! 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 6:55 am
He probably was treated as a little child way too long and it stunted his social maturity.
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