MARY J BLIGE HIT WITH $3.4 MILLION TAX LIEN ON TOP OF OWING THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY $900K

MARY J BLIGE

Mary J. Blige’s financial troubles have gotten a whole lot worse. The singer has reportedly been hit with a $3.4 million bill on top of the $900K she already owes the state of New Jersey.
Media sources report that the IRS has filed a tax lien against the Grammy winner claiming that she’s avoided her income taxes for 2009 ($574,907.30), 2010 ($2,203,743.53) and 2011 ($647,604.60), putting her total owed to the government at a staggering $3,426,255.43.

Reports show that the R&B singer was socked with a $901,769.65 tax lien in New Jersey back in February. Additionally, Bank of America sued her on Feb. 7 in Manhattan for defaulting on a $500,000 loan she took out in 2005 and stopped paying in 2012, according to records.

Blige — who owns an 18,000-square-foot manse in Saddle River, NJ, and another $2.5 million house in the Palisades overlooking Manhattan — was also hit with a $4,301 judgment for money she owed her Garden State landscaper, court papers showed.

The singer’s Saddle River home, which she bought for $12.5 million in 2008, — with property taxes on the swank spread of nearly $100,000 — has been on the market since 2011, with the asking price dropping from $14 million to $12.5 million.

Blige’s latest money woes are on top of more than $3 million the alleged deadbeat diva and her husband, Martin Isaacs, owe in defaulted mortgages, according to various banks that are also suing them.

Making matters worse, last May it was first reported that Blige’s New York-based charity, set up to empower women, had not filed tax returns, had hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing donations, and had defaulted on a $250,000 TD Bank loan.

At the time, Blige said “The problem is that I didn’t have the right people in the right places doing the right things.”