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'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis was convicted of misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment stemming from a dispute after a wild evening in Hollywood.

Three women who went separately about a decade ago, when they were teenagers or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive on Monday in a residential area just south of downtown Cleveland.Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers, police said.

Grammy Award winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday, and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. Hill pleaded guilty last year in the case. Hill explained that she always meant to eventually pay the taxes but was unable to during the period when she dropped out of the music business.