Taylor Swift has been granted a brief restraining order in opposition to an alleged stalker who reportedly visited her house and claimed he shared a baby together with her.
Brian Jason Wagner, 45, from Colorado, allegedly travelled to Swift’s house in Los Angeles quite a few instances, starting in July 2024 and persevering with to Could.
Swift stated in a court docket submitting that in every of those visits, “I’m knowledgeable that Mr Wagner made varied statements about residing at my property (not true), being in a relationship with me (not true), believing I’m the mom of his son (not true), and needing to see me in particular person, all of that are unfaithful and disconnected from actuality”.
On one event he’s alleged to have held a glass bottle which, Swift stated, “may have been used as a weapon”. Swift stated the visits made her “worry for my security and the security of my household”.
Wagner should keep not less than 100 yards away from Swift. A extra everlasting order will probably be put in place after a listening to on 30 June.
Swift has confronted quite a few stalkers over time. In 2017, 29-year-old Mohammed Jaffar was despatched to a psychiatric facility in New York after he made dozens of calls to Swift’s administration firm after which entered her Tribeca condominium constructing. In 2018, Roger Alvarado broke into Swift’s house, used her bathe and slept in her mattress – he was jailed for 9 months, then sentenced to a long term after one other break-in. The identical yr Julius Sandrock was arrested after travelling greater than 1,000 miles to Swift’s house with ammunition, a knife, rope and gloves present in his automobile.
Six different individuals had been convicted of stalking Swift within the following years, together with an incident in 2020 by which a person crashed his automobile into her condominium constructing and tried to achieve entry.
Final week, Swift introduced that she had purchased again the grasp recordings of her first six albums. In 2019, these masters had been offered by her first report label Large Machine to music supervisor Scooter Braun, who had in flip offered them to a non-public fairness agency. Swift retaliated with a challenge to re-record the albums, producing big gross sales with every launch.
Phrases of the brand new deal are undisclosed. Saying it, Swift stated: “All I’ve ever wished was the chance to work arduous sufficient to have the ability to sooner or later buy my music outright with no strings hooked up, no partnership, with full autonomy.”
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