Fashion Designers Dolce&Gabbana Sentence To Jail Time



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What Is This World Coming To? Fashion designer's Dolce &Gabbana have been sentence to jail time for hiding hundreds of millions of  euros from the tax authorities. Apparently, the  design duo was sentence to  One year and eight months of jail time in a suspended jail sentence. Which means that it is highly unlikely that they will ever do any jail time. The famous fashion designers are timeless, and have a celeb clientale that includes, celebs like,  Madonna, Jennifer Lopez(JLO), Kylie Monogue, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Rihanna, and many more celebrity counter parts.  Leave it to Uncle Sam, to land a celebrity in jail if he doesn't get his cut.


Nicki  Minaj actually rocked Dolce and Gabbana on the cover of Elle Magazine.



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According to yahoo

Fashion design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were on Wednesday handed a suspended prison sentence of one year and eight months for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the tax authorities.
The designers, who are nearly as famous as the stars they dress, were not present in court in Milan and have denied the charges. Given the complexity and length of the appeals process, they are unlikely to spend any time in jail.
Public prosecutor Gaetano Ruta had asked for two and a half years. The judge gave them a suspended sentence.
A company spokesman declined to make an immediate comment.
The success of Dolce and Gabbana's sexy corset dresses and sharply tailored suits favored by celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Kate Moss and Bryan Ferry have earned them a glamorous lifestyle.
They hosted friend and client Madonna for her birthday in 2009 at their villa perched above the chic boating resort of Portofino.
The case dates back to an investigation that began in 2008, when authorities unleashed a tax avoidance crackdown as the financial crisis began to bite. But the probe that ensnared the two designers is one of the few high-profile cases to come to trial so far.
The judge on Wednesday ruled that the pair sold their brand to Luxembourg-based holding company Gado in 2004 to avoid declaring taxes on royalties of about 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion).
The pair's flamboyant designs are inspired by the sultry southern Italian island of Sicily, where Dolce was born in 1958. He met Gabbana, now 50, in the latter's home town of Milan, where they showed their first collection in 1985. The brand took hold internationally in the 1990s and global revenues hit just under 1.5 billion euros in 2011.
The pair have always said they are innocent.
"Everyone knows that we haven't done anything," Gabbana tweeted in June 2012 after the trial was ordered.
But Gabbana's only reaction so far on Wednesday was to tweet a close up photograph of the branch of a colorful citrus tree, just seconds after the verdict.
(Reporting By Manuela D'Alessandro and Isla Binnie; writing by Jennifer Clark; editing by Giles Elgood)