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.
'I sent my 'Tinder Swindler' to jail after he conned me out of 500k'
ok.co.ukMum of four Chrissy Handy, 57, who lives in Flintshire, Wales, was swindled out of over half a million pounds, but refuses to be bitter.
She now wants others to learn from her mistakes and has written a book about her upsetting ordeal... ‘My life imploded with a warning phone call from my sister-in-law in August 2006. “I hope you’re not financially involved with Alexander.” Those eight words changed everything.
Soon I’d learn that Alexander de Rothschild, the man who’d swept me off my feet and fathered my baby, was a callous conman. It began in a Cheltenham coffee shop in June 2003. “Do you mind if I take this seat?” asked the well-spoken stranger.
I was 39, a slim size 12 and finalising my divorce. A single mum to Tom, then nine, Simon, six, and Sarah, four, I had a part time job – and £650,000 in the bank. “Help yourself,” I shrugged, reading my paper Only when I looked up five minutes later, and saw the other empty tables, did I realise this besuited, charming gentleman had sought my company. “I’m Alexander,” he grinned, adding that he was a financial consultant.
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