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Ailing Ric Flair has been slammed with a $280,000 tax bill

Ailing Ric Flair has been slammed with a $280,000 tax bill Ailing wrestling icon Ric Flair has been slammed with a $280,000 tax bill just days after getting out of the hospital for heart surgery, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.Both the IRS and the Georgia Department of Revenue have taken out liens on the Nature Boy's five-bed mansion in suburban Atlanta, where he lives with his fifth wife, Wendy Barlow.Tax documents show the legendary grappler owes the Federal government $239,871 on his 2016 to 2018 earnings, plus a further $38,703 to his home state.Flair's $370,000 home could eventually be seized but the WWE Hall of Famer - worth an estimated $3 million - has years to settle the debts.The 70-year-old - real name Richard Morgan Fliehr - was hospitalized in Atlanta last month because of an unspecified medical issue. Ailing wrestling icon Ric Flair has been slammed with a $280,000 tax bill just days after getting out of the hospital for heart surgery, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal Flair's $370,000 home could eventually be seized but the WWE Hall of Famer - worth an estimated $3 million - has years to settle the debts It was originally described as a 'very serious' emergency but the wrestler's son-in-law Conrad Thompson later told Fightful.com it was a planned procedure and the situation was 'not as grave or serious' as reports made out.After getting out May 22 Flair took to Twitter last week in full character to assure fans he was OK and complain about the huge hospital bills.'First of all, thank you to my beautiful family to all my friends, to all the doctors, nurses, everybody that brought me back again,' Flair said.'It’s a miracle again. It’s a 1.8 million dollar tune-up on the Nature Boy. That’s how much all this has cost. Thank God for insurance. Well almost all the insurance. A lot of cash out of our pockets.'But that’s OK because I lived and I’m living here to tell you the kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing, limousine-riding, jet-flying son of a gun is not gonna change, slow down. I’m gonna move forward.'Flair, considered to be one of the greatest and most flamboyant professional wrestlers of all time, has been dogged by money troubles down the years despite his vast earning power.The IRS first went after the 16-time world champion in 1990 for a reported $62,000 in back taxes which he promptly paid back.Flair found himself squaring up to the Federal government again in 2000 when his estate was hit with another lien for $874,000.When the IRS began to seize Flair’s WWE earnings in 2005 as a means of paying off his debts, the platinum-blond fighter admitted that he and his second wife Elizabeth had spent wildly and 'lived well beyond' their means. Ric Flair on twitter:'On The Mend, Getting Better Every Day!!! Thank God For Wonderous Wendy Never Leaving My Side. I Hope She Never Gets Tired Of Taking Care Of The Naitch! It's A Lot!'He started an online business called ‘Ric Flair Finance’ in September 2007 but that shuttered in less than a year.Flair continued to wrestle well into his 60s

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