Mary J. Blige Hit With $3.4 Million Tax Lien

The 'Be Without You' crooner fails to pay her
income taxes to the IRS from the years 2009
until 2011.
Mary J. Blige
is facing a
new financial
issue. The "Be
Without You"
hitmaker is
sued by the
Internal
Revenue
Service for
owing $3.4M
in unpaid
taxes. TMZ
reports she
failed to pay
income taxes
totaling around $574,000 in 2009, $2.2M in
2010, and $674,000 in 2011.
This adds to Mary J's list of problems. She still
owes $901,000 to the state of New Jersey in
back taxes. She also has outstanding debts
stemming from lawsuits against her charity for
failing to pay back several bank loans including
a hefty $2.2M taken out from Signature Bank.
When responding to her financial problems last
year, the singer blamed her staff for
mismanagement. "The problem is that I didn't
have the right people in the right places doing
the right things," she said in a statement back
then.
"Mary has been and is continuing to work with
her new team to resolve all these issues as
quickly as possible," her rep said.