Fugees star Hill set for jail as judge dismisses 'slavery' defence

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1m (€763,110) in tax over the past decade.

"I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them," Hill told US Magistrate Madeline Arleo in Newark, New Jersey. "I had an economic system imposed on me."