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.
'Selfless' teen 'raped and dumped' on street before being killed by oncoming car
dailyrecord.co.ukThree men and a teenager have been arrested on suspicion of raping a 'selfless' student and abandoning her in the street before she was tragically run over by a car and killed.
Madison Brooks died on January 15 after she was accidentally hit by a car in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Mirror reports. The Louisiana State University student, 19, is believed to have been raped while intoxicated and had been dumped in the street when she was fatally struck.
Kaivon Deondre Washington, 18, and an unidentified 17-year-old have been charged with third-degree rape along with Everett Lee, 28, and Casen Carver, 18, who were charged with principle to three-degree rape after they were said to be in the car but didn't take part in the sexual assault.Carver reportedly told officers he and the three other suspect had been at a club nearby the university called Reggie's Bar and according to the arrest warrant, they had all been drinking and left with the victim who they had only just met.
He said Madison was 'very unstable on her feet and was not able to keep her balance' and that she and the 17-year-old suspect were hugging and walking together.The teenager allegedly asked the group for a lift home and Carver claims that Washington and the 17-year-old asked Madison to have sex with them in the back of the car to which she consented.
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