{"id":792607,"date":"2026-07-11T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:17:10","slug":"taylor-swift-paid-278000-for-new-york-wedding-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792607\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift paid $278,000 for New York wedding permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>10 Jul, 2026 09:38 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters the billionaire pop singer covered the bill for this month&#8217;s star-studded extravaganza. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taylor Swift paid US$160,000 (about $278,000) for a New York City permit to hold her blockbuster wedding with NFL star Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Mamdani told reporters the billionaire pop singer covered the bill for this month\u2019s star-studded extravaganza, when asked<br \/>\n         if Swift would pay back the city for police overtime related to the ceremony.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTaylor Swift has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@NYCMayor<\/a> Mamdani on Taylor Swift paying New York City back for police overtime during her wedding: &#8220;Taylor Swift will be paying&#8230; has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlYhUmi9AS\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rlYhUmi9AS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/2075607725615022353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Swift\u2019s wedding, which took place over two days in Manhattan, drew hundreds of celebrities and involved a large deployment of police officers who shut down streets surrounding the huge indoor arena.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 10 Jul, 2026 09:38 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32465,373167,1466,64,63,52352,447,9278,134,580,13960,14826,53584,11900,155006,18404,3127,29035,161821,102587,34636,4031,53583,12975,19004,24080,31166,373168,22676,3605,3918,171729],"class_list":["post-792607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-month","tag-373167","tag-about","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blockbuster","tag-celebrities","tag-city","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-garden","tag-hold","tag-kelce","tag-madison","tag-mamdani","tag-mayor","tag-new","tag-paid","tag-permit","tag-said","tag-square","tag-star","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-this","tag-today","tag-travis","tag-us160000","tag-wedding","tag-with","tag-york","tag-zohran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}