Back to the MMA Newsfeed

IRS claims Royce Gracie duped government, owes $1.5 million in back taxes

The 49-year-old may have been conducting some risky business over a three-year period between 2008-2011.

You can't fight the government. Plenty of famous fixtures and celebrities, from Martha Stewart to Wesley Snipes, have all tried to pull a fast one on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and failed.

Royce Gracie might be a mixed martial arts (MMA) legend, but even he can't find a way around Uncle Sam.

Gracie's alleged wrongdoing began in 2007, where IRS Agent Gloria Ybarra found, through a series of documents, evidence that showed the former held signature authority on a number of international bank accounts.