Shakira sung, “I’m starting to believe it should be unlawful to fool a woman’s heart,” in her Carlos Santana duet “Illegal,” in 2005. “Illegal” What else is against the law? Tax evasion or evasion. On July 27, Spanish prosecutors offered the Colombian singer a settlement proposal of €14.5 million in the matter of her alleged tax cheating. AP reports that prosecutors are seeking an eight-year and two-month term for Shakira and a fine of €24 million in the trial.
Her (now-ex-boyfriend) Gerard Piqué, with whom she has two children, is said to have spent more than half of each year in Spain between 2012 and 2014. Shakira, on the other hand, stated that she and Roger Waters co-own a private island in the Bahamas.
That’s what they acquired it for back in 2011, but now the Spanish government thinks that the most significant structure she constructed on it was… a tax-avoidance facility. “Including 3 million euros in interest,” claim Shakira’s public-relations agents, she’s already paid in full according to the AP. The trial has yet to be scheduled. Whether she swears to disclose the full truth and nothing but the truth on a Bible or her hips, the only question is whether she will.