Kanye West always manages to be in the news for all the wrong reasons. From interrupting Taylor Swift’s MTV VMA winners’ speech onstage to proclaiming his love for his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and relentlessly pursuing her.
West has undoubtedly grabbed the most headlines. for his controversies than for his work and the latter is no exception.
In a brief interview on Tim Pool’s ‘Timcast’ podcast, Ye now revealed that he had received a phone call saying that they were going to jail him.
The reason: a $ tax bill million and that the Internal Revenue Service withheld four of his bank accounts as a consequence.
Let’s remember that the rapper, of 24 years, has lost his billionaire status as a result of anti-Semitic comments he made a few weeks ago and which he has refused to retract in several times.
“I’m talking about literally finding out that they were trying to put me in jail this morning. But I found out, okay, so they froze, put a $400 million hold on four of my accounts. And then they said, ‘you owe a lot of taxes.’ It took me like six hours to figure out how much. A lot, it was around $24 million,” West said.
It is said that his net worth has been reduced to about $400 million dollars, and to that we must add the fact that you now owe $75 million dollars in back taxes.