{"id":519950,"date":"2026-07-10T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:33:08","slug":"taylor-swift-paid-nz278000-for-new-york-wedding-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519950\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift paid NZ$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 that 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 (approximately NZ$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 Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Mamdani told reporters that the billionaire pop singer covered the bill for this month\u2019s star-studded extravaganza, when<br \/>\n         asked 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":519951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[62150,12510,430,2199,156,2082,4999,8589,28162,11209,124141,203721,10934,4486,117,111,139,69,257872,10142,90091,3048,10505,2737,11208,163,1961,4942,257873,15315,102,2173,203722],"class_list":["post-519950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-approximately","tag-blockbuster","tag-celebrities","tag-city","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-friday","tag-garden","tag-hold","tag-kelce","tag-madison","tag-mamdani","tag-mayor","tag-month","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nz278000","tag-paid","tag-permit","tag-said","tag-square","tag-star","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-this","tag-travis","tag-us160000","tag-wedding","tag-with","tag-york","tag-zohran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}