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True Dough

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86. And no less a tax fraud!
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 08:50 AM
Feb 2025
BARCELONA, Spain — After having maintained her innocence for nearly five years, pop star Shakira struck a last-minute deal to avoid the risk of going to prison on the opening day of her tax fraud trial in Barcelona on Monday.

Shakira told the presiding magistrate, José Manuel del Amo, that she accepted the agreement reached with prosecutors. She answered "yes" to confirm her acknowledgement of six counts of failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros (about $15.8 million) in taxes between 2012 and 2014.


https://www.npr.org/2023/11/20/1214135694/shakira-tax-fraud-deal-trial#:~:text=Shakira%20reaches%20deal%20on%20tax%20fraud%20charges%20to%20avoid%20prison%20%3A%20NPR&text=Hourly%20News-,Shakira%20reaches%20deal%20on%20tax%20fraud%20charges%20to%20avoid%20prison,a%20fine%20of%20%247.6%20million

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This is horrible Emile Feb 2025 #1
I agree!!😢 demosincebirth Feb 2025 #78
Remember UP WITH PEOPLE BOSSHOG Feb 2025 #2
Apparently, they are still popular in Mexico LeftInTX Feb 2025 #58
Tom Petty so many good ones ALBliberal Feb 2025 #3
This looks like a Jr High talent show DenaliDemocrat Feb 2025 #4
Not watching senseandsensibility Feb 2025 #5
Ditto on the Prince show Traildogbob Feb 2025 #34
Coldplay, roscoeroscoe Feb 2025 #82
I hate coldplay Dorian Gray Feb 2025 #103
Here's the You Tube roscoeroscoe Feb 2025 #107
Bruno Mars!!! AkFemDem Feb 2025 #6
My brother is a very dedicated amateur musician TexasBushwhacker Feb 2025 #23
Is it horrible? Can't watch and yet feel I have the ALBliberal Feb 2025 #7
It's Certainly Targeted At... ProfessorGAC Feb 2025 #11
Oh good, it's not just me NT Tickle Feb 2025 #8
I liked the halftime show from Super Bowl XXXIII in LogDog75 Feb 2025 #9
I love Kendrick tishaLA Feb 2025 #10
Maybe it's my age... loved snoop, dre and fifty cent in LA a few years ago... WarGamer Feb 2025 #12
Kendrick doesn't have the laid back style of Snoop tishaLA Feb 2025 #13
I thought it was brilliant. harumph Feb 2025 #15
I don't think True Dough Feb 2025 #27
Me too, I loved it! still-prayin4rain Feb 2025 #52
I Couldn't Make Out the Lyrics DET Feb 2025 #61
Lyrics are words in a song. The last thing I would call that is a song. Emile Feb 2025 #83
root of song and memory is rhyme. harumph Feb 2025 #93
Funny Dorian Gray Feb 2025 #104
Not watching the game at all. But fwiw Alliepoo Feb 2025 #14
Shakira bats 1.000... never misses WarGamer Feb 2025 #17
She's also a huge tax cheat True Dough Feb 2025 #30
She is Colombian DeepWinter Feb 2025 #85
And no less a tax fraud! True Dough Feb 2025 #86
That's a lot of dough. Mosby Feb 2025 #95
I only saw a little bit of it RandomNumbers Feb 2025 #16
My secret fantasy is a Metallica halftime show. WarGamer Feb 2025 #19
LOL I could go for that RandomNumbers Feb 2025 #20
the last chance for Metallica would be Super Bowl 2026 in San Francisco... home of Metallica. WarGamer Feb 2025 #37
Next Year let's have BOSSHOG Feb 2025 #31
Then others won't like it. How funny. Its like this every year. Srkdqltr Feb 2025 #39
I'd like to have them play in my back yard BOSSHOG Feb 2025 #42
Or TOOL proud patriot Feb 2025 #54
The one I'll never forget is Janet Jackson and whatsisname and the whole circus that followed. Dave Bowman Feb 2025 #18
There's now a crater on Mimas named after Janet Jackson ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2025 #48
Tonight was pretty good malaise Feb 2025 #21
I'm old enough to remember marching bands at half time. LOL 2 Meow Momma Feb 2025 #22
I liked it and real hip hop fans recognize the greatness that is K-Dot tulipsandroses Feb 2025 #74
I'm over 50 and grew the fuck up on hip hop. Kdot has slowly grown on me over the last few months. Watching closely. SoFlaBro Feb 2025 #81
I also remember the days of ChazII Feb 2025 #89
Drake fan? nt LexVegas Feb 2025 #24
Ari Melber probably enjoyed it. Paladin Feb 2025 #25
I switched to Celebrity Jeopardy 49jim Feb 2025 #26
Who were the contestants tonight? True Dough Feb 2025 #32
Margaret Cho was the winner 49jim Feb 2025 #41
$47.5k is not too shabby, True Dough Feb 2025 #44
PRINCE! FalloutShelter Feb 2025 #28
oh is it time for people to show their age again lol WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2025 #29
Yeah, trying to decipher Kdot's performances is a cultural phenomenon itself. Lol tulipsandroses Feb 2025 #75
Wasn-t meant for me. Didn't pay attention. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2025 #33
I left in the middle of it. murielm99 Feb 2025 #35
Gotta love people offering up their opinions as if it's fact Docreed2003 Feb 2025 #36
Music is personal. WarGamer Feb 2025 #40
I did, see how that works Docreed2003 Feb 2025 #50
Plenty of anti-Trump imagery, you say? W_HAMILTON Feb 2025 #67
I cannot remember a Super Bowl half time that everyone liked. The ones in the past were panned just like these are . Srkdqltr Feb 2025 #38
Bring back The McGuire Sisters sisters and Dynaflow transmissions! Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2025 #43
Yah, dig 'em up and let 'em sing. Srkdqltr Feb 2025 #47
Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna are mostly liked... by all. WarGamer Feb 2025 #46
I gave it a chance.Though I've no doubt B.See Feb 2025 #45
Rap is not my thing, and I would never listen to it for pleasure, Music Man Feb 2025 #49
I'm old and I thought it was great! still-prayin4rain Feb 2025 #51
Black empowerment seems to bother a lot of people. BlueTsunami2018 Feb 2025 #53
That's just it Sucha NastyWoman Feb 2025 #60
I thought the GNX was the amazing Polybius Feb 2025 #66
I hear ya but RandomNumbers Feb 2025 #73
Exactly. Not saying he doesn't deserve his props, but B.See Feb 2025 #77
It sure does. OR the cultural divide is quite evident. Kendrick's performances have been tulipsandroses Feb 2025 #91
Nailed it malaise Feb 2025 #105
Unwatchable, low energy, boring Bread and Circuses Feb 2025 #55
60 years of playing less than mediocre guitar, horns, mandola, etc., makes me respect musicians of all genres, except Silent Type Feb 2025 #56
Brilliant Vanguard Art Comrade Citizen Feb 2025 #57
Get off my lawn! iemanja Feb 2025 #59
In Living Color Morbius Feb 2025 #62
I watched the whole thing, even though these 76 year old ears couldn't keep up with the lyrics. Greybnk48 Feb 2025 #63
Kudos to you! "Drake VS Kendrick Explained to White People" vanessa_ca Feb 2025 #96
How about Zackzzzz Feb 2025 #64
2022 was amazing Polybius Feb 2025 #65
Might not be your style, but Kendrick won a Pulitzer Prize for music. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2025 #68
I think this U2 performance is the last Superbowl halftime music I really enjoyed. It was right after 911. dgauss Feb 2025 #69
I didn't mind it. GoCubsGo Feb 2025 #70
That was likely the worst ever IbogaProject Feb 2025 #71
My annual hot-take tradition: Prince was vastly overrated Tommy Carcetti Feb 2025 #72
As bad as Meatloaf? canetoad Feb 2025 #76
Strong disagree Mountainguy Feb 2025 #79
Music is 100% subjective... I thought it was hot trash. WarGamer Feb 2025 #80
Someone that likes NWA and Pac but not Kdot? That tells me you know nothing about Kendrick tulipsandroses Feb 2025 #90
He may be a poet... but I don't hear music. WarGamer Feb 2025 #92
Interesting because Dre is one of Kendrick's biggest fans vanessa_ca Feb 2025 #94
My granddaughters loved it ribrepin Feb 2025 #84
Face it, you're OLD justaprogressive Feb 2025 #87
You would have loved the halftime shows MineralMan Feb 2025 #88
Like this? LeftInTX Feb 2025 #100
Maybe not quite.. MineralMan Feb 2025 #106
Not sure why a liberal doesn't get the Gil Scott Heron referrence right off the bat FHRRK Feb 2025 #97
I just didn't HEAR MUSIC. WarGamer Feb 2025 #98
Yeah, I get that FHRRK Feb 2025 #99
Prince doing Purple Rain and U2 doing MLK/Where the Streets Have No Name AZJonnie Feb 2025 #101
I'm old enough to remember them too Dorian Gray Feb 2025 #102
Re: the stats WarGamer Feb 2025 #108
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