When the Checks Stop Coming In: The Feds Are After Robin Givens

Posted on May 21st, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Lawsuits, News, When The Checks Stop Coming In

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Robin Givens is hurting. The Feds say she is in the hole over $290,000 and about to get her assets placed on lien:

With her first marriage to boxer Mike Tyson lasting just one year and a second marriage falling apart in less than one day, actress Robin Givens has been unlucky in love. She’s now also unlucky in taxes. The U.S. government has sued the 44-year-old actress over what it says is $292,000 of unpaid federal taxes, interest and penalties as far back as 1996. In a lawsuit filed last week, the feds asked the federal court in Tampa, Fla. to enter a formal judgment against Givens on 39 separate assessments covering eight of the 12 calendar years through 2007. Such a court finding would make it easier for the Internal Revenue Services to try to collect the allegedly unpaid amounts through garnishing her earnings or levying her assets, such as bank accounts.

The government’s petition states that Givens resides in Bradenton, near Tampa. News media reports say at least one of her two children has attended a school there, while other accounts say she shuttles between New York. Her Los Angeles-based agent, Darryl Marshak, confirmed Givens uses a Bradenton address but declined to comment on the lawsuit. No answer has been filed yet in court. According to the government lawsuit, Givens failed to pay $222,000 in federal taxes. The other $70,000 the government is demanding consists of interest and assorted penalties, including for failure to pay, underpayment of estimated tax and late filing. The pleading does not state what her total income or tax was for the years in question, nor the extent of any partial tax payments.

Givens is no stranger to trouble involving taxes. Public records show numerous state and federal tax liens against her over the years in New York, Florida and California. Many of the federal liens may be part of the new lawsuit against her. In some cases, the liens, which are claims to proceeds from real estate and other assets in the event of a sale, have been released, suggesting payments were made.

She should’ve gotten her baby moms on with a couple of high profile boxers. In all seriousness, this is a direct reflection on our economy. The good old days are over. The Government is on her @ss and they want their money. SMH

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  • Just Sayin

    Uno………

  • Just Sayin

    Duos……. Dam……………..
    :-)

  • Jazzy

    Robin checks out this site. I just want to say … Serves that azz right!

  • kahmmillion

    That’s what she get for throwing salt on Chris Brown…mind your own business hoe!

  • JB Cougarlicious – MICHAEL VICK IS FREE!!!!!!!

    Robin,

    Girl at least you can write to Wesley Snipes and Ronald Isley.

  • STRANGE PROGRAM

    I would rock Robin for real. Cant help her with her money woes, but can get it off her mind if only for one night ;)

  • Tee

    This is definitely a result of the economy now .. the good old days are over!

  • Souljagir

    I am not going to laugh because she’s takin gher children through this but seriously what do these 80′s stars do with all the money! 80′s & 90′s everyone was eating even in the hood hustler’s were doing it big! Dang too bad for her….

  • CAT EYES

    So you mean having babies by 2 different soccer players on the same team couldn’t help her?How pathetic

  • http://www.cockbibcrazy.com P.Diddy

    LMAO @ CockBibCrazy.com SOOOO FUNNY!

    THEY SELL “COCKBIB” BLOWJOB BIBS

    GOOGLE “CockBibCrazy” or click on “P DIDDY” to see the site!

  • http://www.imeem.com/mrslatiayates missunderstood (f*ck some playoffs, I want my TV back!!!!)

    DAMN! This chick has dated Eddie Murphy, Brad Pitt, Howard Stern, and married Mike Tyson, and she can’t come up with a measlt 290K in over a decade??? WTF? Just goes to show, some women don’t understand the POWER of the P*SSY… lol…

  • zappy

    Misunderstood,

    I cosign. You forgot a few more names (e.g, Wesley Snipes – maybe I shouldn’t bring this one up, since he is also on his way to jail because of taxes), but I cosign.

    How can you date so many rich men and not put some away? These women are crazy. We need to let Shaq’s wife school these ladies.

  • zappy

    Robin needs to do a Playboy spread. That will get her the money real quick and from the looks of things, I think she still has it together.

  • Just Sayin

    @ missunderstood (f*ck some playoffs, I want my TV back!!!!)

    DAMN! This chick has dated Eddie Murphy, Brad Pitt, Howard Stern, and married Mike Tyson, and she can’t come up with a measlt 290K in over a decade??? WTF? Just goes to show, some women don’t understand the POWER of the P*SSY… lol…

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Didn’t Stephanie Mills do a song called ” The Power of P*ssy”?

    Oh.. my bad it was “The Power of Love”.
    :-)

  • Just Sayin

    @ missunderstood (f*ck some playoffs, I want my TV back!!!!)

    DAMN! This chick has dated Eddie Murphy, Brad Pitt, Howard Stern, and married Mike Tyson, and she can’t come up with a measlt 290K in over a decade??? WTF? Just goes to show, some women don’t understand the POWER of the P*SSY… lol…

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Didn’t Stephanie Mills do a song called ” The Power of P*ssy”?

    Oh.. my bad it was “The Power of Love”.

    LMAO :-)

  • Just Sayin

    @ zappy

    Robin needs to do a Playboy spread. That will get her the money real quick and from the looks of things, I think she still has it together.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Good point…. but somehow I think if she was paid 10 million to humped a one eyed midget wit no legs in the middle of Time Square and she got 100% of the pay per view money she would be in financial trouble in a few years.

    Some people are just like dat….

  • a darius somewhere

    good for her, she did tyson dirty and now the law on dat azz..lol

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  • hommie

    Where is here mother now….

  • always knew

    So what!

    Why is this news?

    I still don;t like her for how she did Mike, in his heyday, maybe he wouldn’t have that stigma attached to him now…

    But on the real, ole girl was a golddigger and she’s getting her just desserts…Besides the head of the class, has she ever has another gig, oh just marrying Mike that divorcing, taking his money, then swirling it up because no one wants to be bothered, with her fake ass? She adopted 2 kids and I wonder where those kids are, now that she’s getting ready for the pokey…. Good luck and don’t drop the soap…
    :)

  • l thomas

    You reap what you sow.

  • Never Know

    I guess that’s why she did The Game she needed money

  • shellys

    i’d rather die seriously then have any government agency on me let alone the fedz..i’d for sure rather die

  • DR.FUNK

    She always struck me as being a lot smarter than this result. Guess not.I’m sure she can appeal the judgment down to something reasonable.Book a coupla’ guest appearances & boom…at least pull even.(not that I care).Pure irony that this woman is the poster child for gold diggers everywhere.SHE SUX AT IT!

  • Carla

    Robin has some big yam legs to be so skinny, lol. She’s built like a White chick.

    She should down size financially, and by the way, what’s wrong with enrolling her kids in excellent magnet schools instead of spending money on school, hell those private school are costly. Wait until the kids want to go to college then it’s okay to spend money on college because that is higher education. And it would be helpful if her kids are of work permit age, I don’t see why they can’t get a job o the weekend.

  • zappy

    Her son is in a tennis school, that is very, very expensive. Rumor is that he is very good in tennis and that she is hoping for a Serena/Venus Williams type career from this son.

    Who knows? We’ll see.

  • zappy

    Just Sayin’

    Whether or not she has fake tits doesn’t mean she can’t be in Playboy. Some men are not that into tits.

    I am not saying she’s going to make $10 million now. But $290,000? She should be able to clear that by spreading her legs for Playboy. Hell, she should be able to clear that by spreading her legs to the right person.

    Where is a dumb boxer when you need one?

  • me (the original)®

    Tsk tsk.

  • Carla

    Opps, I meant and I still play the game, sorry ! :)

  • Mrs. RL (of Next)

    I’d give Oprah a call.

    Good luck, Robin!

  • silversurfer

    She got a $30 Mil Settlement a long time ago from Mike Tyson, while she was still earning bucks.

    I would have put that Coin away, and live off the interest for the rest of my life.

    I am not a Financial Genuis by any stretch, but this seems so much the logical thing to do

  • silversurfer

    even @ 10% (I think its 24% when you put away that kind of coin) that’s $3 Mil a year.

    I think a could have a OK Lifestyle with that.

  • BE

    Robin pay your taxes! we have to…290K probably ain’t going to break her

  • ms.bassett

    wow!! thats really something how someone that was very popular in the 80s and the early to mid 90s, married a boxer at his prime, dogged him and damn near left him for broke, divorced him, and tried dating and marrying different other men that just didnt work out and had children by these men, thats just sad that karma can get u in the worst way, never do someone wrong and try to get away with it because it can come back in some kind of way to haunt u!!! and as far as the IRS to go, they dont play, they will get their money one way or the other, ive been there and done that, they’re no joke and thank God i dont have to deal with them like that :)

  • zappy

    Carla,

    You are missing the point. Her son is going to be the next Arthur Ashe/Venus Williams/Serena Williams (supposedly).

  • zappy

    Me (The Original),

    You are definitely on to something.

  • Marcelo

    http://www.manateeclerk.com/or/imgdata.asp here is the documents to prove it shame

  • Carla

    Zappy, I understand what you are saying and I hope that her son has the burning desire to play tennis and he isn’t doing this to please other people. Like I stated earlier if he’s of work permit age it wouldn’t hurt him to have a job on the week end, considering his mom can’t afford to for him to attend the tennis academy. Or he could also teach kids tennis on the weekends.

  • http://www.bossip.com Toucheaway

    She’s not the first nor the last. Trust and believe, you will hear about more celebrities going through this as we go along. A lot of them aren’t working like they used to, and it’s just tough times.

  • AWWWWWWWWWWWSHADDAAAAAAAP!!!!

    This dried up chicken-head needs to go on a permanent vacation.

  • Its6amHoGetOut, the only opinion that really matters.

    robin was never fine to me, now shes 44 and 14 years past her expiration date.

  • chaka1

    Damn. She has been frontin for years like she’s so high class and educated. Pay your taxes, woman…

  • Marquis de Sade

    *irresponsible*

  • bianca

    Marquis you are just the lowest form of low.You need serious intervention TO RID YOU OF THAT DIRTY,BITTER , HATEFUL MIND.You are beyond lost to conventional methods of rehabilitation!Two things to cure your diseased mind 1/ A PROFOUND AND SUDDEN KARMIC LESSON
    or 2/ DIVINE INTERVENTION /EXORCISM.
    PS.whatever you say about me would be based on assumption and I wouldn’t be bothered,but I know enough about you to tell you the truth about yourself…from the abundance of the heart the tongue speaketh !

  • http://www.joetheplugger.com Manuel

    *easy come…..easy go*…hihihihihi

  • UPDOWN

    @ Laurie Farmer, so R you for reconizing.
    ================================================
    Most people don’t know that the IRS isn’t even a government agency, they are a collection service for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) the US is bankrupt. The US is a corporation. They trick you into thinking that you owe, because of the way they trick you into signing those tax forms from your job. You have the right to earn a living, if there really isn’t any money, and they paid you in federal reserve notes, you never got paid any money.

    you got paid in “debt notes” the dollar bill doesn’t have value, because it’s not money. It’s a note, “Legal Tender” for all debts, “public and private” do you see the word money on it?

    Do you know why? because in 1933 the United States went bankrupt. HJR-192 june 5th 1933.

    Unfortunately hip-hop doesn’t prepare you to see the real tricks out here, it keeps you locked in ignorance, which leads one to poverty, deaths first cousin.

  • UPDOWN

    Money is a “Medium of exchange”
    The government is bailing big companies out with the tax payers reserves. And not one American, white or african stands up and tell them, that they are breaking the laws of the land.
    No accountability means wreckless government.

    I was standing in the middle of the forest and trees were falling and I didn’t hear a thing.
    That’s the people of America right there.

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