The Internal Revenue Service reportedly sent a tax lien for $6,410,449.20 to Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro for his 2013 taxes, but it has now been paid after the notice went to the wrong address.
De Niros spokesman Stan Rosenfied told the Web site
The lien was dated February 3 and was uncovered by researchers at a new Web site called
De Niro won Academy Awards for playing the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II in 1974 and boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull in 1980. Of special interest to accountants, De Niro also played a bounty hunter in the 1988 movie Midnight Run, who is hired to bring to justice an accountant played by Charles Grodin who embezzled $15 million from the mob.
Michael Cohn is the editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com.
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