Get to know Rebekah Harkness.
Fans and tabloids alike knowTaylor Swift’s sweeping Rhode Island mansion for the lavish bashes she’s held there.
The Rebekah in question is Rebekah Harkness, a philanthropist and patron of the arts from St. Louis.
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As the song goes, Harkness would throw countless parties at the manse.
Iyengar, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and artist Salvador Dali.
“She rang J.D.
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She believed in reincarnation.
She filled her fish tank with goldfish and Scotch.”
As alover of all things feline, though, who could blame her for the switch?
(It was later withdrawn.)
This isn’t the first time Swift has written a song based around one of her famous residences.
