Taylor Swift did buy that Hyannis Port property, then flipped it for $1 million profit
In Tuesday’s epic Taylor Swift-Vanity Fair post, I excerpted the details about Taylor’s purchase of a Hyannis Port home, which was reportedly right next to the Kennedy compound. Rumors and reports were widely circulated about the real estate purchase last year, when Swifty was in the throes of her high school romance with Conor Kennedy. Like, she literally purchased the house next door to Conor after they had only been dating for a month or two. Tay-Tay tried to play it off in the VF interview, but the writer (Nancy Jo Sales) did her research and not-so-subtly called Swifty out on her BS. Here’s the relevant portion from VF:
In response to the rumors that Swift was looking to buy a house next to the home of her then boyfriend Conor Kennedy’s family in Hyannis Port, Swift tells Sales, “People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like—that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.”
Swift continues, “One of these things I say to myself to calm myself down when I feel like it’s all too much . . . If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”
But Sales reports that Swift actually did purchase the house. According to someone close to the situation, she had been viewing the property with her parents for over a year under the recommendation of Rory Kennedy. In November 2012, the Cape Cod Times reported the house had been sold to Ocean Drive LLC for $4.8 million. The company’s filing papers name a certain “Jesse P. Schaudies” of 13management—Taylor Swift’s management company. Schaudies did not return calls made to 13management’s offices, but according to the source, the Hyannis Port house was recently resold. “It was like a house-flip,” the source says. “A good short-term investment.”
So, Swifty knew well enough to avoid a specific denial (especially on something that could so easily be proven), but she still looks like a liar and a whiner for complaining about the coverage of something that SHE ACTUALLY DID. Anyway, E! News has more about the Hyannis Port real estate deal which I found interesting:
Make that money, Taylor Swift . Despite being coy in Vanity Fair about buying the Hyannis Port, Mass., house near the Kennedy compound while dating Conor Kennedy last summer, realtor Bob Kinlin tells E! News that he did in fact sell the house to Swift.
The chart-topping singer avoided answering the question during her interview for the mag, saying, “Apparently I buy houses near every boy I like.”
But Kinlin, who sold the house last August to Swift, told us that the young singer snagged the Cape Code style, seven bedroom home for $4.8 million, in the name of the Ocean Drive LLC, registered to a Nashville manager Jesse P. Schaudies Jr. of Swift’s 13 Management company.
“I never physically met her, but she has obviously an entourage of people that represent her,” the realtor told E! News. “And the property did close for $4.8 million.”
He also told us that Swift turned around and sold the property two weeks ago, making almost $1 million in profit after having the home for only seven months. The home sold for $5,675,000 to a couple that had been coveting the house before Swift, Kinlin tells us.
Swift’s team did do some improvements to the home, which included renovating the kitchen, some bathrooms and replacing the septic system.
And this is one of the biggest problems I have with Swifty: she’s actually a smart businesswoman and she has made and continues to make really intelligent decisions about her career and her money, but she insists on making her public persona all about unicorns and candy canes and being a boy-crazy tween stuck in the body of a 20-something girl-child with bolt-ons. This is the difference between the reality of a 20-something pop star who dates, has healthy sex and makes smart business decisions versus the girl-child image she tries to perpetuate. She plays the untouched angel victim role (in comparison to the brunette sluts she skewers in her music) who is too feminine and innocent to be a savvy businesswoman.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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