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Snipes' Taxing Life Spurs Lawsuit
Turns out celebrities are just like us when it comes to paying taxes; that is, they don't like doing it either. Exhibit A: Wesley Snipes.
The Money Train star stands to lose his Orlando house due to failure to pay back taxes to the state of Florida.
According to a Celebrity Justice report, Snipes owes more than $20,000 on his 4,000-square foot spread in Disney country. Thanks to some 11th-hour wrangling, the Blade: Trinity slayer narrowly averted an auction of the property last Tuesday. The house, appraised at more than $250,000, is now scheduled to hit the auction block in June unless Snipes pays off his tax bill.
This is not the first time Snipes has had trouble with paying property-related expenses. In 2003, his $1.7 million, 10,000-square foot Florida mansion went into foreclosure when the 44-year-old quit making payments to Chase Manhattan Bank on the property. The bank eventually unloaded the mansion for a measley $685,000.
Snipes' financial woes may be the least of his problems these days.
He remains wanted on a warrant in New York for failing to take a court-ordered DNA test in a long-simmering paternity case. Snipes has refused to cooperate in the case involving Lanise Pettis, an Indiana woman who claims Snipes fathered her son from a crackhouse rendezvous in 2000.
Snipes has been fighting the warrant, to no avail. He claims New York has no jurisdiction in the case--because he's a resident of Florida (at least until he loses his house, natch). He also claims Pettis is mentally ill.
Snipes and his legal team have asserted that the actor has never even met the former prostitute, but the woman insists she has known the actor "all her life" and wants a court to confirm the results of their alleged sexual episode circa 2000 in Chicago.
While the paternity spat winds its way through the judicial system, Snipes could get an influx of cash soon. With Blade: Trinity performing decently at the box office, taking in more than $52 million domestically and eventually topping $123 million worldwide, per boxofficemojo.com, and poised to do at least as well on DVD, Snipes, as a producer, could reap millions of dollars in back-end payments.
And if that doesn't work out, Snipes hopes to collect a cool $5 million from New Line Cinema via a freshly filed lawsuit.
Snipes filed suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming the studio failed to live up to promises of giving him final say on the screenplay and director choice for Blade: Trinity.
The actor also contends New Line still owes him $3.6 million of the $13 million he was supposed to get up front for making the vampire flick.
If all else fails, Snipes has two other projects in the pipeline for 2005 that should net him enough cash to perhaps save his Orlando abode, the cop drama Chaos and the heist flick 7 Seconds.
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