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.
Report: Taylor Swift did due diligence, declined to sign $100 million FTX sponsorship deal
thefader.comAdam Moskowitz — the attorney in charge of a class action lawsuit brought against FTX promoters including Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Brady, and Larry David — says Taylor Swift was one of only several celebrities who did their due diligence before agreeing to promote the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange.
On a new episode of The Scoop, a podcast from the crypto-focused online publication The Block, Moskowitz recalls his surprise at how many hugely popular figures hadn’t checked in with their own lawyers before signing massive contracts with the shady firm.
Swift, he says, was one of just a few who did. Read Next: TikTok catches Taylor Swift getting on stage via a cleaning cart “The one person I found that did that was Taylor Swift,” Moskowitz told The Scoop’s host Frank Chaparro and The Block’s policy reporter Stephanie Murray. “In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, ‘Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?’” In December, shortly after FTX’s ignominious collapse, Financial Times reported that Taylor’s team had been in talks with FTX over a proposed $100 million sponsorship deal, writing that the negotiations had simply fizzled out a few months before the company went bankrupt.
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