Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Estée Lauder heir settles lawsuit with ex-mistress over $7m Bel Air mansion
msn.comLos Angeles home - which he agreed to do while she lived there with their shared teenage daughter. Stein also adopted a son.
She took the billionaire businessman to court and claimed that he was attempting to kick the family out of the Bel Air home.
But the cosmetics chairman clapped back with his own suit, saying that he was exempt from making the annual payments for the $7million mansion because she had broken their 2007 confidentiality agreement.
He reportedly drew up an agreement that would see Stein receive an annual payment of $1million if she did not publicly disclose that her daughter was in fact his child.
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