DMX Arrested For Tax Fraud

Rapper DMX has been arrested in New York on federal tax fraud charges.

Prosecutors say the rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, owes $1.7 million in taxes and has engaged in a multi-year scheme to conceal millions of dollars of income from the Internal Revenue Service.

Prosecutors say Simmons raked in millions from his songs, including the 2003 hit "X Gon' Give it to Ya," and avoided paying taxes by setting up accounts in other's names and paying personal expenses largely in cash.

The 46-year-old Yonkers native was arrested on Thursday. He's to appear in Manhattan federal court on Friday. A telephone call to his previous lawyer's office went unanswered.

In 2015, Simmons spent more than two months in a New York jail for failing to pay child support.

DMX In An Amusement Park

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George Zimmerman/DMX Fight Canceled

With DMX stating he never agreed to fight George Zimmerman and the promoter claiming a conscience, the celebrity boxing match scheduled for next month between Zimmerman and DMX has been canceled. The promoter says he could have made a million dollars but that he wanted to be able to look at his kids and have them be proud of him. You know, because there is nothing like arranging celebrity boxing matches between barely relevant celebrities to make a kid invite you to their school career day. "My dad finds losers who were famous for 30 seconds and gets them to fight." I do think it was a bad idea to promote Zimmerman like this. You are basically celebrating a guy who murdered someone. That being said I was hoping he would be put in the ring against someone who would pummel him for three rounds. The guy abuses women and kills people and gets away with it. I don't want him to profit off it which he would have done but I would like to see him get the snot beat out of him so it is a conundrum. It is also way too early to be using that word. This is the same promoter who begged Casey Anthony to come fight and as far as I know still has an offer out to her so it is not like he hates all murderers.

George Zimmerman Fighting DMX

I'm not sure who would schedule anything that involves DMX. The odds of DMX being a no show for anything are high and when you set something out in advance it is tough with DMX because he gets arrested frequently and has a ton of court dates to juggle. Apparently though he was the number one candidate out of 15,000 applicants to fight George Zimmerman. To put it bluntly he was the biggest name who would fight the cheapest. DMX is tough but I wanted someone in the ring against Zimmerman who you know would pummel the guy. You want to chance this with a 43 year old who is neck and neck with Jenelle Evans for most celebrity arrests in a multi-year period? Zimmerman is 30 and has been training for months and DMX only has time to worry about where he is going to make a buck or which probation department he has to see that day. I can't believe there was no other person more likely to kick Zimmerman's butt than DMX.

Now if you give me DMX from a decade ago? I'm all over that. Maybe he has the fight in him. It sure would be nice.

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Favorite Christmas song and it can't be DMX singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.

DMX Arrested - Again

It is close to the holiday season so DMX must have been missing the place he has called home frequently over the last few years...jail. D or MX as his friends like to call him was arrested last night after he was found to be in possession of coke. Not content with just one drug, D, was also using OxyContin without a prescription, failing to show up for drug testing and just pretty much anything else he could do to violate the terms of his probation and parole. He is currently being held without bond.

Talk about a guy who had so much promise and just let it all go to hell.

I Have High Hopes For This Tell All

I have not decided if Tahera Simmons' book about her marriage to DMX will be a tell all or just his version of events. I do have high hopes that she will spill about everything that has gone on and all his arrests and jail sentences and everything else that makes him get arrested so frequently.

The couple married in 1999, have four kids together and she has not left him despite all this. That is why I wonder if she won't say anything and just take his side in all of it. You know, like he didn't know all the dogs were being mistreated or he didn't know he had all those guns in his car, or that Lindsay Lohan was the one who stole everything. Crazy stuff like that.

The book, entitled Strength Of A Woman is her first book. How many of you even knew DMX was married? He sure is setting a fine example for his four kids too.