Shakira settled her Spanish tax case in a bid to “protect” her children. The 47-year-old pop star agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine in her tax fraud case last year – but Shakira maintains that she wasn’t guilty. The ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ hitmaker – who has sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, nine, with former soccer star Gerard Pique – said in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo: “I want to leave my children the legacy of a woman who explained her reasons calmly and in her own time, when she considered it necessary, not when she was forced to. “I need them to know that I made the decisions I made to protect them…