Find out how many millions he's earning now. Think back to where you were on April 29, Do you remember the day? The same day they exchanged their wedding vows […]. The ambitious father who turned his two daughters Venus and Serena Williams into tennis […]. In 27 years of criminal law practice, I've never seen a trial judge tell a jury to applaud a defense witness right before they take the stand. Close this content. Read full article. More content below. Wesley Snipes. Donald Trump.
Stephanie Guerilus. In this article:. Credit: Getty Images. Credit: Netflix. Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. Recommended Stories. Women's Health. First came the stories that he was difficult to work with. Then nearly all his films started going straight to DVD. Snipes lost his appeal against conviction and in December he was jailed.
After serving two and a half years, he was released in Snipes, 58, is sitting in a recording studio when we Zoom. I ask what that is. Snipes tells me he is a founder member. My head is spinning already. Could he be more specific? And you might have somebody who by day is a nuclear physicist and by night is a professional karaoke artist. Snipes has never been backward in coming forward. I can sing. I can do graffiti. I can cook very well. People are less familiar with my forays into technology and telecommunications.
Snipes has not done many interviews since his release from prison. Some old friends stood by him: Spike Lee cast him in his film Chi-Raq , an adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata , and Sylvester Stallone hired him for The Expendables 3, playing a character newly released from jail after being banged up for tax evasion.
But now it looks as if he really is on his way back. Next he is appearing in Coming 2 America, the long-awaited sequel to the monster hit Coming to America, which again stars Murphy. We can do it hard or we can do it easeeeeey! How does he think his conviction affected his career? Not one bit. When he was 15, his mother moved them back to Florida, where he was born. He went on to study drama at the State University of New York.
In one of his first interviews, in , he talked about being arrested and falsely accused of stealing a car — when he protested, one of the police officers kneed him in the neck. They did what was standard protocol in those days in Los Angeles. Snipes was accused of playing the race card. Meanwhile, last month the New York Times revealed that Donald Trump had paid no federal income tax in 11 of the 18 years its reporters investigated. Trump has never been charged with any crime, let alone convicted.
He starts talking about his case. Now this is rare. Remember when Wesley Snipes was ordered to spend three years behind bars for failing to pay his federal taxes? His fans certainly haven't. He showed up at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania on December 9, , before he was ultimately transferred to an adjacent, minimum-security "Club Fed"-style facility, where he remained until April Yet within the 15 years before Trump's campaign, the real estate mogul reportedly hadn't paid taxes for at least 10 of those years because he apparently lost more money than he actually earned.
During a press briefing on Sunday, Trump denied the Times ' report, calling it " fake news. That hasn't stopped people on social media from pondering the IRS' different treatment of both men.
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