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.
'Toyboy' stockman accused of raping Scots farm boss 39 years his senior acquitted after not proven verdict
dailyrecord.co.ukCourt in Livingston at the end of a six day trial. His alleged victim, now aged 59, claimed in evidence that Linton had raped and sexually abused her for almost 18 months after she hired him to work on her farm.
She said he subjected her to physical assaults and verbal abuse calling her: ‘Granny’; ‘The bearded lady’, and comparing her to the comedy character ‘Isa’ from ‘ Still Game ’.
Linton, 28, claimed the name-calling was joking banter, not abusive and insisted that the sexual relationship he had with the woman had been consensual.Summing up, Linton’s defence counsel Sarah Livingstone cast doubt on the woman’s claims that Linton had started the sexual relationship so he could blackmail her into handing her farm over to him by threatening.
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