The financial troubles faced by singer Mary J. Blige have just gotten worse --- about $3.4 million worse, to be exact.
Blige has reportedly been hit with a $3.4 million tax bill on top of $900K she already owes the state of New Jersey.
According to a report by TMZ, the Grammy award winner was slapped with a tax lien by the Internal Revenue Service, which claims she avoided paying income taxes for 2009 ($574,907.30), 2010 ($2,203,743.53) and 2011 ($647,604.60), putting the total she owes the government at $3,426,255.43.
The New York Post reported New Jersey tax officials imposed a $901,769.65 tax lien on the R&B singer back in February.
Bank of America in addition sued Blige Feb. 7 in Manhattan for defaulting on a $500,000 loan she took
Blige owns an 18,000-square-foot home in Saddle River, NJ, and another $2.5 million house in the Palisades overlooking Manhattan.
She was hit with another $4,301 judgment for money she owed her Garden State landscaper, court papers showed.
Bilge's Saddle River home, which she bought for $12.5 million in 2008 and has property taxes of nearly $100,000, has been on the market since 2011. The asking price for the property was dropped from $14 million to $12.5 million.
Blige's latest monetary maladies are piled on top of more than $3 million the diva and her husband, Martin Isaacs, allegedly owe in defaulted mortgages, according to various banks that have also filed suits against the couple.
A year ago, the Post first reported that Blige's New York-based charity, set up to empower women, had hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing donations, had not filed tax returns and had defaulted on a $250,000 TD Bank loan.
Blige told the Post back then that "the problem is that I didn't have the right people in the right places doing the right things."