Vanessa Williams hit with tax lien

Vanessa Williams may soon be writing a very big check. The IRS has filed a tax lien against the actress, saying that she owes $369,249 to the federal government for her earnings in 2011. At the time, Williams was working on the ABC primetime soap, "Desperate Housewives."

Actor Mekhi Phifer has filed for bankruptcy, according to court papers obtained by CNN. The "Divergent" star is reportedly $1.3 million in debt, with $1.2 million of that being in back taxes.

Actress Teri Polo, from "Meet the Parents" and ABC Family's "The Fosters," filed for bankruptcy in April. According to TMZ, Polo owes about $772,000 in back taxes and more than $36,000 in credit card debt.

Singer Aaron Carter filed a bankruptcy petition to shed more than $2 million in debt, mostly taxes owed from his days as a teen sensation, his publicist told CNN in November.

Singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison in May 2013. She told a judge she intended to pay taxes but it was just a question of when.

Judy Garland's tax debt forced her to do something she vowed she would never do: host a television show. To pay the IRS for delinquent taxes dating back a decade, the singer/actress signed a $24 million deal with CBS for "The Judy Garland Show" in 1962.

Willie Nelson cleared his $32 million tax debt by selling assets and an album titled "The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?" Nelson discovered in 1990 that his accountants had not fully paid his taxes -- a find made tougher by investment losses in the 1980s.

In 1990, baseball legend Pete Rose spent five months in prison for tax evasion convictions stemming from money made selling autographs and memorabilia. The tax man returned to his door in 2004 with a $1 million lien for back taxes.

Lil' Kim blamed her accountant when her tax troubles arose in 2005. Seven years later, the rapper still had to pay more than $1 million to the government.

While O.J. Simpson has known bigger legal problems, delinquent taxes are on the list. The former football star, who's serving a long prison sentence in Nevada, owed the IRS and the state of California hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to court documents.

Comedian Sinbad racked up a large unpaid tax bill, owing $8 million to the IRS for income from 1998 to 2006, according to an IRS court filing in 2012. California officials also reported that he owed the state $2 million. After filing for bankruptcy and selling his home, Sinbad used the tax troubles as material for a reality show.

Actor Nicolas Cage revealed in 2010 that he owed $14 million in back taxes, which he has been working to pay off since. A federal tax lien said he owed $6.2 million from income in 2007.

Wesley Snipes walked out of a federal prison in April 2013 after serving a tax evasion sentence that began in December 2010. The actor claimed that he was not legally obligated to pay federal taxes, an argument a jury did not buy.

Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, were hit with a federal tax lien in April 2011 on one of their Los Angeles homes. The couple owed $1.7 million in back taxes from 2008 and 2009. Sharon Osbourne initially blamed an accountant but later took personal responsibility.

Rapper Jeffrey Atkins, also known as Ja Rule, was sentenced to 28 months in prison in July 2011 for failing to file tax returns with the IRS. Atkins admitted that he did not file his taxes for five years.

Actress Pamela Anderson was hit by a big back-tax bill in December 2012, totaling about $370,000.

Dionne Warwick filed for bankruptcy in March, citing more than $10 million in tax debt dating to 1991. Her publicist blamed "negligent and gross financial mismanagement."

In 1997, "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison for convictions on conspiracy, tax evasion and money laundering relating to a high-priced prostitution ring. She served 20 months.

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• Tax lien was filed at the New York County register office on August 13, 2014


• Williams' publicist did not immediately respond to requests for comment


• Mother of four lives in New York

(CNN) -- The IRS filed a tax lien against Vanessa Williams, saying the singer-actress owes the federal government $369,249 for her 2011 earnings.

The lien was filed at the New York City register office on August 13, 2014, according to a document on that website.

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The publicist for Williams did not immediately respond Wednesday to requests for comment.

Williams, 51, was the first black Miss America, but her reign soon erupted into scandal when nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

Her career soared in the aftermath, with music, television and Broadway performances that earned her Grammy, Emmy and Tony nominations.

A mother of four children, Williams lives in New York.

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2013: Lauryn Hill released from federal prison, singer failed to pay income taxes

Kate Bush returns after 35 years

Kate Bush in 1980 -- a year after her last tour. She started a 22-show run in London Tuesday.

• Kate Bush dazzles in first show in 35 years


• "Most ambitious piece of theatrical pop ever seen" on UK stage, says one review


• David Gilmour, Bjork, Lily Allen on hand


• Bush best known in U.S. for "Running Up That Hill"

(CNN) -- After 35 years away, British singer Kate Bush returned to the stage Tuesday night -- and the response was rapturous.

"There was something thrilling about seeing the often bonkers but still delightful imagination of Bush run free after all this time," wrote Bernadette McNulty in the UK Telegraph about the show at London's Eventim Apollo, which included giant paper airplanes, reptilian monsters and sets with odd perspectives. Novelist David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas") contributed some of the narrative.

"She moves with a lithe grace, clearly still drawing on the mime training she underwent as a teenager forty years on. Her voice too is in remarkable condition: she's note-perfect throughout," wrote Alexis Petridis in the Guardian.

"The most ambitious piece of theatrical pop ever seen on a British stage," noted the Independent.

The show, titled "Before the Dawn," has been hotly anticipated for months. The 77,000 tickets, for a run of 22 concerts, sold out in minutes back in March. Fans are coming from all over the world to see her -- and, in some cases, paying dearly for the privilege.

Among those in attendance: David Gilmour (who helped get her career started), Bjork, Lily Allen and actress Gemma Arterton.

The first-day visitors were glad they came.

"It was just hypnotic," one spectator told the Telegraph.

"Kate Bush last night was phenomenal, one of the best shows I've ever seen," wrote singer Anna Calvi on Twitter.

Kate Bush last night was phenomenal, one of the best shows I've ever seen

— Anna Calvi (@annacalvi) August 26, 2014

The show wasn't without its complaints -- mainly over a request to not use smartphones.

"(Personnel) are patrolling for phones in a very intense way," noted the Guardian in a live blog.

Bush is known for her acrobatic voice and expansive, thoughtful albums, that have sometimes come out years apart -- which only makes her fans more frantic in anticipation. In the U.S., she's probably best known for the 1985 album "Hounds of Love," which contained the single "Running Up That Hill," and her duet with Peter Gabriel, "Don't Give Up," which appeared on Gabriel's 1986 album "So."

She has been reluctant to perform live for a number of reasons. There have been rumors of stage fright and fear of flying. She became a mother and wanted to raise her son, Bertie (who was a key supporter in bringing her back, she wrote in the show program.) There was also a dark experience at the beginning of her previous tour, in 1979, when her lighting director died in a fall.

Kate Bush to perform live for the first time in 35 years

As recently as 2011, she was uncertain she would ever play live again.

"I still don't give up hope completely that I'll be able to do some live work, but it's certainly not in the picture at the moment because I just don't quite know how that would work with how my life is now," she told the UK music publication Mojo.

Gored expert to run with bulls again

Just weeks after Bill Hillman was badly gored in Pamplona, he's back at other smaller bull runnings in Spain.

• Author and running with bulls expert Bill Hillman was gored during run in Pamplona, Spain, in July


• Hillman blames 'first timers' or 'inexperienced guys' for his mishap


• Now walking with a cane, he recently attended a bull-running event in San Sebastian de los Reyes, near Madrid


• Hillman says he plans to run with bulls in the future, possibly next summer

San Sebastian de los Reyes (Spain) (CNN) -- Just weeks after a Chicago writer known as a veteran, expert bull runner was badly gored in Pamplona, he's back at other smaller bull runnings in Spain, but walking with a cane.

"I really didn't think he was gonna gore me until it happened. I really thought I was going to find a way to escape," said Bill Hillmann, who helped write a book, "Fiesta, How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona," shortly before a bull's horn tore into his right thigh.

That was July 9, the third day of Pamplona's historic, annual eight consecutive days of running, which Hillmann says he's run daily for numerous years.

A bull got separated from the other five bulls toward the end of the 850-meter (half-mile) course. Hillmann was trying to help lead the lone bull toward the nearby bullring, but says he was pushed from behind, tripped and fell.

"I've learned from this. I'll always be much more worried about who's behind me 'cause now I know, if I'm not aware of there being first timers behind me or inexperienced guys, it could be me gored," said Hillmann, who turned 33 this month.

Tempting fate in San Sebastian de los Reyes.

He's facing a €9,000 (nearly $12,000) bill for hospital services in Pamplona, but is undaunted and is finishing a new book on how running with the bulls has changed his life.

"I wasn't sure how I was going to end the book, but now I'm pretty sure the ending is going to be the goring," he said.

Expert American bull runner gored in Pamplona

Running with bulls 'tradition' not cruelty

Pamplona's running of the bulls dates back centuries and became world famous thanks to novelist Ernest Hemingway.

But numerous other Spanish towns hold their own bull running each year, and Hillman arrived this week in San Sebastian de los Reyes, near Madrid, for its running.

Bill Hillmann, a 32-year-old man from Chicago, is carried on a stretcher after he was gored on his right leg during the annual running of the bulls Wednesday, July 9, in Pamplona, Spain. Hillmann has been running in Pamplona for about a decade, and he recently co-authored a book entitled "Fiesta, How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona."

Hillmann was gored toward the end of the half-mile course -- just before the downhill slope that leads into a bull ring.

Hillmann lies on the ground after being gored. His friend Alexander Fiske-Harrison described the gash as a "clean wound. It didn't touch a bone or an artery." Hillmann would later have surgery at a hospital, and he is expected to spend about four days there before he is released, Fiske-Harrison said.

Some other runners apparently fell in front of Hillmann, and then he lost his balance, said fellow book contributor Jim Hollander, a veteran photographer.

Hillmann is helped by medical officials. On the first three days of running this year, 13 people have been taken to the hospital -- three for goring-related injuries.

Photos: Gored in Pamplona

In these towns, he tends to catch up with with a small group of other traveling men -- Spaniards and foreigners -- who have become regular, serial bull runners.

Hillmann brushes off criticism that the running of the bulls is animal cruelty.

"I don't see anything cruel about it," he insists. "The animals, they're just running. They don't get hurt in any way during the run."

But they do tend to get killed in bullfights later that day.

Surviving Pamplona's running of the bulls

Yet Hillmann points to the old traditions involving the bull-running events.

"I think it's fun, it's exciting," Hillmann said of the running. "I think it's stupid for people who know nothing about a tradition to judge someone who knows a lot about it and who loves it."

In San Sebastian de los Reyes, these Englishmen completed their first-ever bull running.

In San Sebastian de los Reyes, a group of Englishman proudly completed their first-ever bull running, and came across Hillmann, who was asked to pull up his right pants leg to show his hefty scar.

They asked if Hillmann would keep running and he said yes, although he doesn't expect that to be until next summer, after he's fully healed.

"I need to build up my courage again," he said, earlier in the day. "It's gotten a lot scarier now that I know exactly how dangerous it is, now that it's a reality."

After reviewing video and photos on a laptop computer of the day he was gored, Hillmann grimaced, and said, "Of course it was worth it. I knew the day I would get gored was coming. I was hoping I'd survive.

"I was hoping it wouldn't stop me from continuing to run, and I was lucky enough to survive and it looks like I'm going to be able to run again."

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