Hip hop singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced three months behind bars for tax evasion.

The former Fugees star has been ordered to report to prison on July 8.

In July 2012, Hill confessed to not paying taxes on around $818,000 (£526,519) in 2005, $222,000 in 2006 and $761,000 in 2007.

On release, the 37-year-old also faces an additional three months of home confinement and a year of supervised probation. She has also been slapped with a $60,000 fine.

The mother-of-six - five of whom were fathered by reggae legend Bob Marley's son, Rohan - was sentenced on Monday by US magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo at a federal court in Newark, New Jersey.

Hill was sentenced despite recently having paid more than $900,000, but the court said that she still owes interest and penalties.

The singer said: 'I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.

The eight-time Grammy-winning musician rose to global fame as part of 90s group The Fugees before launching a solo career with the critically acclaimed album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998. It went on to sell 19m copies.

She appeared alongside Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993.

Hill is due to release her second studio album The Return later this year.

She is the second member of the Fugees to have run into controversy after fellow bandmate Wyclef Jean- who in 2010 led an unsuccessful attempt to become Haitian president - faced an investigation into what happened to money he raised for victims of the Haiti earthquake.