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Taylor Swift and The Kennedy Compound House: The Whole Original Story

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Remember last summer when everyone was obsessed with Taylor Swift and the Kennedy compound house in Hyannisport? Taylor was dating five years younger Conor Kennedy and hanging out with grandma Ethel. Then the word went out that Taylor had bought–for a song– the only non Kennedy house in the famous Hyannisport neighborhood.

Now Nancy Jo Sales writes in Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com) that Swift did buy the house after all. Well, we know she did because it was reported in the Cape Cod Times back in November by Robert Gold. Gold uncovered the Ocean Drive LLC  that Sales mentions in her piece. So she did buy the place. http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121107/NEWS/211070350

Sales suggests that the house was flipped right after that. Swift didn’t keep it. But read my explanation from last summer of what may have happened.

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/08/15/taylor-swift-and-the-kennedys-a-weird-yet-plausible-explanation

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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