Dolce & Gabbana

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Yesterday the news broke Dolce & Gabbana owe the Italian government an assload of cash and are facing a criminal investigation because they haven't paid all of their taxes.

Following allegations of tax evasions, Dolce & Gabbana is now the subject of a criminal investigation due to some financial messiness. WWD reports:

Italian dynamic duo Dolce and Gabbana owes money to the man. Or should we say l'uomo. According to Italian newsweekly L'Espresso, the fashion house was fined $3 million for tax evasion after a third-party distributor resold more than 100,000 items off the books. But the Batman and Robin of fashion still have enough money to buy a monastery, WWD reports.

In December British Vogue reported that Gisele Bundchen would design a line for Dolce & Gabbana. But this morning the magazine takes back the story:

It seems the rumor was, well, nothing more than that.

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