DOMENICO DOLCE and Stefano Gabbana have each been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison after being found guilty of tax evasion. A jury met for three hours this afternoon to discuss the legal ruling which is one of three legal procedures that will determine a final verdict.
Judge Antonella Brambilla ruled in the case on one of two counts. They were cleared of the second count - involving the valuation of their company and the tax rate paid - at an earlier date. The designers are expected to appeal the decision, WWD reports.
The lawsuit refers to the label's 2004 sale of its signature and D&G lines to Luxembourg-based holding company Gado Srl - which Italian authorities believe was a means of evading Italy's high taxes - charges that the designers have strongly denied. The designers' lawyer, Massimo Dinoia, called for the pair to be acquitted of the charges - while prosecutor Gaetano Ruta demanded that Dolce, Gabbana and company board member Cristiana Ruella should be sent to prison for two-and-a-half years. He added that their accountant, Luciano Patelli, should be incarcerated for three years.
what did they to Gaga? ? And I'll never understand the need to evade tax when they would STILL ****ing have so much money left. Like **** off greedy people
Rumor has it that they also do business with the Sicilian mafia, so this is hardly surprising.
Maybe a little jail time will give them some new inspiration so they can stop making the same dumb f***ing collection over and over.
AMEN!!!! I'm so glad someone else said it!
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what did they to Gaga? ? And I'll never understand the need to evade tax when they would STILL ****ing have so much money left. Like **** off greedy people
$1.3 Billion In Income Disgusting, isn't it?
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You don't like Lady Gaga?
GABBANA No we don't. But she is the mirror of the times and therefore we must acknowledge the fact. Why people like her? Why does she have many followers? What does she represent? One should be asking themselves the question: how comes she is so successful?
And what is your own answer to that?
GABBANA She is the expression of an era of decadence. Even more so considering she hasn't created a single thing yet.
But you too seem to be the embodiment of excess
DOLCE Well wait a second. In Lady Gaga's case there's absolutely no excess whatsoever. What you have there is a girl in drags. Excess is synonymous with courage, eccentricity and a desire to explore. Putting costumes on is something different. It entails a form of hiding oneself, not showing one's face. What she does is take on an identity which isn't her own. She is not the only one of course. I am not on Facebook but I am aware about it and how it works. There are people who present themselves with a mask on which isn't theirs. Made up personal stories and entire existences counterfeited. Who are you? Why do you feel the need to make up a whole other life from scratch? I am a bald man, putting a wig on would not constitute the solution to my problem, now would it? It just wouldn't make sense.
? And I'll never understand the need to evade tax when they would STILL ****ing have so much money left. Like **** off greedy people 
