Model Bar Refaeli has agreed to serve nine months of community service in Israel as part of a plea deal over tax evasion charges.The beauty and her mother, Tzipi Refaeli, had been under investigation in their homeland for several years amid allegations suggesting they had misled tax authorities about Bar’s earnings and whereabouts from 2009 to 2012.They claimed that for 2009 and 2010, she had been living in the U.S.
with then-boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio, and therefore did not have to pay Israeli income tax, although officials maintain she was actually based in Tel Aviv.Last year, Bar’s argument was rejected by a judge, who ordered her to pay back millions in tax dollars, and now the 34-year-old mother-of-three, who is married to businessman.
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