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This story is supremely planted.

The Forbes article on yahoo.com says:

“The Oscar winner’s tax debt surfaced in documents first uncovered by the Smoking Gun.”

The Forbes story is dated February 27, 2015.

It links to the site:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/robert-deniro-irs-tax-lien-897432

The smoking gun story is dated February 26, 2015.

“thesmokinggun.com” is run by two ex-reporters of the Village Voice.

According to the smoking gun story, excerpted here:

“The dunning of De Niro was discovered by some intrepid researchers whose business involves the review of mountains of federal tax liens (and who plan on posting the notable ones at FamousTaxLiens.com). (2 pages)”

the link to famous tax liens is provided in the smoking gun story:

http://www.famoustaxliens.com/

The DeNiro story on famous tax liens (link below):

http://www.famoustaxliens.com/robert-de-niro/

was puportedly posted to famous tax liens February 24, 2015.

A “whois” of famoustaxliens.com domain name yields the following:

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: FAMOUSTAXLIENS.COM
Registrar: NAMESILO, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1479
Whois Server: whois.namesilo.com
Referral URL: http://www.namesilo.com
Name Server: NS65.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS66.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 24-feb-2015
Creation Date: 21-feb-2015
Expiration Date: 21-feb-2016

>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:01:53 GMT <<<

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So the famoustaxliens.com domain name was CREATED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2015.
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