Celebrity Justice
Dionne: It's Not My Fault!

Dionne -- say a little prayer that the tax man won't come get you! As TMZ first reported, Dionne Warwick is on California's list of biggest tax cheats. But according to her publicist, she says it's not her fault she owes nearly $3 million in back taxes!

In a statement issued to TMZ, Dionne's rep says, "Ms. Warwick is aware of the tax situation which resulted from the negligence of previous business advisers." That's what friends are for!

The rep adds, "She and her current business management team are now working with the state of California to resolve and settle the matter with the FTB."

Do you know the way to Sacramento?



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16. $3 million worth of "negligence"? Yeah, right. Those guys must've been into her stash.

Posted at 6:39PM on Oct 18th 2007 by Revenue Department

17. you wll probally find small animals up her nose.

Posted at 11:57AM on Oct 20th 2007 by rock hard

18. TO ALL ELLEN BASHERS!



This is to all those that resorted to 1st grade name (Lezbo- that wuz your best sho?t!)calling AND this is a reminder of those who in Ellen's name, without her consent, resorted to threats of violence.



I want you to think about this: When the woman from Moms & Mutts called Ellen to inquire about the dog, she was HONEST. The woman however, responded to Ellen's honesty with deceit. Period. The End Ellen's frankness about the dog should have been a HUGE red flag for the woman that Ellen was not aware of the infamous clause. Had she SIMPLY said- "Ellen, you know that violates the contract, right?" might have given Ellen a CHANCE to explain and work it out like adults. But, no, she chose to lie to Ellen, to the new owners and then so callously hold the dog away from the children in stead of waiting to go in with the police. I think that was pretty cold, but in NO WAY deserving of a death threat!



If ANY of you that chose to spew hate, if you had actually ever stopped to learn all that Ellen has done, for people like us, the non famous people. Case in point: Ellen saw a young man on you tube who could leap over a car and she love it. So, they tracked the young man down and invites him to be on her show. He was great- they brought a car onstage and he jumped over it, then later jumped over 5 or 6 cars all in a row! He later told Ellen that his dream was to be in a Nike commercial. SO, Ellen calls the CEO of Nike and she surprised him today with an appearance at the opening of a new NIke store, $5000 shopping spree at Nike and a spot in the new spot for NIke.com! She made a dream come true for regular guy like us. He's not her first either- not by a long shot.



So, yea, Ellen's a real bitch, hugh?

Posted at 7:08PM on Oct 18th 2007 by odetoourleader

19. Just leave Dionne alone. Whatever the mix up is my fave will handle it properly. So back up suckers.On the real side with all the money matters that go on in such icons lives it is a wonder they can keep up with anything personally..Dionne have no fear for your fan base is here ever supportive and loving. A fan for decades, love Harry

Posted at 7:31PM on Oct 18th 2007 by Harry

20. Geez what are psychic friends good for, if not to give you the heads up on this sort of thing? Guess they didn't see their hotline was gonna go up in flames, either.

Posted at 7:46PM on Oct 18th 2007 by eM

21. Give the woman a break - I bet she paid more taxes than most people ever will have to . So she missed a few million. The way the government spends money, they should be on a buget!

Posted at 7:49PM on Oct 18th 2007 by Vall

22. Good for her ugly ass rest in peace PAL JOEY

Posted at 7:56PM on Oct 18th 2007 by jusbcos

23. You'd think that this actual Hollywood star, turned psychic, "nut," would've been able to avoid getting involved with the bad financial advisors, with her demonic, "connections," in the seance room. What a letdown on that advice. Ha!

Posted at 7:56PM on Oct 18th 2007 by t-shirt

24. doesn't anyone remember when Dionne was running up huge bills associated with her "that's what friends are for" tours? It was revealed the whole "charity" thing was really just a means to subsidize her extravagant lifestyle... pay up, girl...you had this comin' !

Posted at 10:00AM on Oct 19th 2007 by still scammin'

25. Dionne deserves more respect than this blog has shown. She is a entertainer corporation
not an individual taxpayer. It is a much more complex scenario. There are many ongoing tax disputes with the federal government as well as states. This is not unusal. It would be rather standard for employees not to correctly report earnings timely or accurately. Please don't hate because you are not able to comprehend this reality.

P.S. I am not a relative an employee to Dionne Warrick or Whitney Houston, but I have seen the both of them on television before.

Posted at 8:38PM on Oct 18th 2007 by A legend has been scandalized

26. man those people call me like every other week for $2000 imagine when you owe 3mil.

http://www.spymac.com/details/?2284981

Posted at 9:06PM on Oct 18th 2007 by robbyrob

27. Dionne BattleAxe!!!!! What went wrong?

Posted at 9:19PM on Oct 18th 2007 by P-Type

28. If you see me walkin down the street, with fat chain and ball, attached to my feet.....
walk on by..........

Posted at 9:28PM on Oct 18th 2007 by tomski

29. Hang in there sister....she's from the day's you didn't have to show your cooter to make a name for yourselves.

Posted at 9:28PM on Oct 18th 2007 by SuperStarSteve

30. Dionne warwick can jump off wherever, This woman used to be one of my favorite singers until she made an ugly racist statement years ago, Singer Goerge Micheals of Wham had won the Rhythmn and bLues award, wsarwick said "That white man shoulnd t have won the rhthymn and blues award. " She said that honoe belonged to black people. I never bought another Dionne Warwick record after that stupid racist remark from the cave man days. Its just llike people used to say in the 1960s that black singer charlie Pride had no business singing country becasue he was black,.it doenst matter what race you are, if you are good at something that is what matters. Warwicks remark was assinine and I havent bought a record of hers since. Too bad she couldnt use her psyychic powers to see that she was going to run her caucasian fans off by saying something so mean. Lots of people were angry at her over this remark.

Posted at 10:04PM on Oct 18th 2007 by carol

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