Christie Brinkley Hit With $531K IRS Lein

You can ab-crunch your way back into solvency! (Screenshot)

Skincare and fitness enthusiast Christie Brinkley apparently owes the IRS $531,720, as the agency recently placed a lien for the same amount on Brinkley's $30 million home in Bridgehampton. "Financially, her accounts are in good shape. This must be some kind of accounting screw up," a source close to Brinkley tells the Post. We've all been there: Whoops! We forgot to pay $500K in taxes, and we haven't watered our ficus in weeks.

Brinkley owns homes in Water Mill, North Haven and Sag Harbor, has been trying to sell the Bridgehampton estate that she once lived in with her former husband Peter Cook, since 2008. The home has a botanical nursery, a pool, and a 50-foot observation tower, perfect for when you and Chuck Norris are working out or when you want to stare into the sunset & forget you ever married Billy Joel.

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By Christopher Robbins in Arts & Entertainment on December 3, 2011 1:20 PM

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LeezaFreemont

Her business smarts have been very well known for decades now so this whole "public" story seems strangely vindictive on the part someone else and I'll bet they reveal themselves in time, those kinds of people usually are found out eventually.

menevets

What's a lein?

JacksBack72

Pay the interest annually- and wait for the sale of the house on which the lein is. . . THEN- pay up to discharge the lein!

Guye Jern

She still looks so hot. Come on IRS, let her go!

Yishai

The government should be audited. Lets see what kind of fines they would get hit with, sucks that they can't pay with their own money, seeing they only use tax payers money for anything.

non_sequitur

This was delightfully nonsensical.

Jamie_McDonald

Wait, so...you want government to nationalize industry so it can make its own money?

ANGRYGOD11

We should not wait.
NOW is the time for action and now is the time to start installing video cameras in minimum security prison shower rooms.