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

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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Uno………
Just Sayin 5/21/09, 08:50:AM

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Jazzy 5/21/09, 08:51:AM

Robin checks out this site. I just want to say … Serves that azz right!
kahmmillion 5/21/09, 08:52:AM

Wow, perhaps she should have stayed with Mike and kept getting her ass beat…

LOL…just kidding.
Nigga Said 5/21/09, 08:52:AM

So she let Tyson whoop the ass for nothing? She better sneak in a sextape or playboy before its too late.
kahmmillion 5/21/09, 08:52:AM

That’s what she get for throwing salt on Chris Brown…mind your own business hoe!
Just Sayin 5/21/09, 08:53:AM

She’s thinking, “Where’s a rich boxer when you need one…”

I ain’t sayin she a gold digga…
Nique 5/21/09, 09:05:AM

Girl, you better call Mikes stuttering ass ASAP!Good luck cause the IRS aint no joke!
JB Cougarlicious - MICHAEL VICK IS FREE!!!!!!! 5/21/09, 09:07:AM

Robin,

Girl at least you can write to Wesley Snipes and Ronald Isley.
STRANGE PROGRAM 5/21/09, 09:12:AM

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 5/21/09, 09:13:AM

This is definitely a result of the economy now .. the good old days are over!
rome a.k.a. (Fu#k! Da Diaz Bruddaz) 5/21/09, 09:14:AM

Whose balls is she gonna blow out next to pay that

bill? My guess is probably some old wrinkly rich

white guy from…..uhhhhhh…..let’s

say…….Romania. either that or some dumb

football player. Maybe Mike Vick when the checks

start rollin in again!!!!! LMAO!!
Souljagir 5/21/09, 09:24:AM

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 5/21/09, 09:29:AM

So you mean having babies by 2 different soccer players on the same team couldn’t help her?How pathetic
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missunderstood (f*ck some playoffs, I want my TV back!!!!) 5/21/09, 09:47:AM

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 5/21/09, 09:54:AM

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 5/21/09, 09:56:AM

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 5/21/09, 10:07:AM

@ 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 5/21/09, 10:08:AM

@ 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
Lady J 5/21/09, 10:09:AM

Mike Tyson…..forward fast years later…..Karma is a Bitch, aint it Robin?…..it aint your money anyway….
Just Sayin 5/21/09, 10:12:AM

@ 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….
uptowngirl 5/21/09, 10:19:AM

Didn’t she just “star” in the Wendy Williams bio-movie? LMAO
a darius somewhere 5/21/09, 10:30:AM

good for her, she did tyson dirty and now the law on dat azz..lol
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geico lizard 5/21/09, 11:29:AM

Robin Givens was already in playboy magazine I have the issue and she has no titties. It looks like a 13 year old boy.
How did she spend all that Tyson money? Robin and Don King should live forever off the loot they got from mike tyson.
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hommie 5/21/09, 12:22:PM

Where is here mother now….
always knew 5/21/09, 12:37:PM

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 5/21/09, 12:43:PM

You reap what you sow.
HA 5/21/09, 12:45:PM

She also dated Michael Jordan. Hell all his white bitches get houses. What did she get?
Never Know 5/21/09, 01:02:PM

I guess that’s why she did The Game she needed money
LATEEF 5/21/09, 01:06:PM

Now, I believe in ‘what goes around comes around’. It takes a while but it comes around. The ex better watch the hell out!!!!

Dirty Bastard!
shellys 5/21/09, 01:09:PM

i’d rather die seriously then have any government agency on me let alone the fedz..i’d for sure rather die
2dimplzs 5/21/09, 02:18:PM

This is NOT the result of the economy!!! This is called NOT LIVING WITHIN YOUR MEANS!!!!! She dated high profile men, she married some losers and had kids with them. What this sounds like to me is a woman who did a poor job at saving and managing her money! She has made movies, albeit low budget movies, she’s made guest appearances on some shows…….where is that money? Did she not save any of it?

Again I blame it on living outside of your means. Probably trying to send her kids to uppidty private schools that she really couldn’t afford, having houses and apartments in New York, FL, and probably CA too when she knew full well she couldn’t afford them!

Then she was like on this mission to prove that she’s not a gold digger by NOT asking her kids fathers for help in supporting them. Whatever. This chick has made some really poor decisions in her life. She got champaign taste with Mad Dog 20/20 money. You are a D list star boo-boo, you better start living like one!!
DR.FUNK 5/21/09, 03:06:PM

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 5/21/09, 03:18:PM

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.
Silken Dove 5/21/09, 04:02:PM

Maybe she just wanted to see if she could get someone else to pay it before she actually HAAAD to had to pay it. Women like doing that *giggle*.

She just played a part in Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys.. I know that she banked from that movie.
john hope frankin 5/21/09, 04:09:PM

damn she had a nude pic?
zappy 5/21/09, 04:13:PM

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 5/21/09, 04:17:PM

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)® 5/21/09, 04:45:PM

Tsk tsk.
Carla 5/21/09, 04:48:PM

Zappy, look when I was a kid I learned how to play with out going to an expensive school. Unfortunately my mom didn’t have the money to send me to a tennis academy. So I did the next best thing, I checked out tennis videos on tape, read various on the fundamentals of playing tennis, and of course I went out to the park near my house where there just happen to have a tennis court. And that’s how I learned to play tennis and I still the game today for recreational purposes, lol…
Carla 5/21/09, 04:50:PM

Opps, I meant and I still play the game, sorry !
Sammy 5/21/09, 05:05:PM

She needs to drop an adult video to make come coin
Mrs. RL (of Next) 5/21/09, 05:45:PM

I’d give Oprah a call.

Good luck, Robin!
UPDOWN 5/21/09, 06:28:PM

Some of you brain dead ingrates kill UPdown, with your stupid ideas for stacks. Who would want to see Robin Givens old ass legs spreaded? Not me, everybody has been between them, this high milage slut has run out of her pre-paid whore minutes.

It’s time to get yourself a real job, the problem with blacks is that, when you’re on top, you’re too busy spending, you never think about tomorrow or the rain, the sun doesn’t always shine on your black asses, especially in the dark.

We live in a debt system, you have to know how to counter the debt attack, or else, bye, bye riches! The debt system has no respect of person, just live wreckless with your money and you will move away from easy street, on over to poverty lane. It happens everyday.

There’s really no different from the dude who works at Mc,donalds from the high profile types.
All it is is more zeros to waste, at the end of the day, what does the rich man have left? bankruptcy and memories or who use to be his friend. The working man is still going and saving and enduring and has built up a nice nest egg to retire on, it may have taken 25 years, but he’s comfortable now, because he worked hard.

The rich man is unhealthy and now broke.
Keep living you’ll all see for yourselves, life is nothing but a shadow mixed with reflections.
silversurfer 5/21/09, 06:38:PM

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