Taylor Swift, $40 billion donation ahead of luxury secret wedding [Star Issue]

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Pop singer Taylor Swift donated a staggering 400 billion won ahead of her secret wedding.

On the 2nd (local time), AP reported that Taylor Swift and American football (NFL) player Travis Kelshi donated a total of $26 million (approximately 400 billion won in Hanwha currency) to 20 local and national charitable organizations.

According to the report, donation recipients include the New York Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, and Kansas City Children's Hospital in Missouri. These institutions are located in regions deeply connected to the couple: Kansas City (Kelshi's NFL team home base), Pennsylvania (Swift's birthplace), Nashville (where she began her music career), Los Angeles (LA) (where she spends much of her time), and New York (where the wedding will be held).

Additionally, nationwide organizations such as Dolly Parton Imagination Library and Feeding America received donations. The specific amounts distributed to each institutional investor were not disclosed.

The recipient organization, City Harvest, stated: "This donation is a love letter to New York. It comes at a critical time when the number of visitors to the New York Food Bank has reached record levels due to federal budget cuts."

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelshi will hold their wedding ceremony on the 3rd at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York.

According to internal documents from the New York Police Department, Taylor Swift's wedding will be a fully private event held from the afternoon of the 3rd until 2 a.m. the following day at MSG, following a rehearsal dinner attended by about 100 people on the afternoon of the 2nd. Up to 1,000 guests are expected to attend.

In this regard, Taylor Swift's team is reported to have also applied for road control permits near MSG.

New York City Mayor Zoran Mammadani recently stated in a briefing: "An application has been submitted for the 'large-scale event' to be held at MSG. We are fully prepared. There is no further information to share."

MSG, which serves as both a concert hall and sports arena, is the stage where Taylor Swift has performed eight times in the past. Additionally, foreign media have analyzed that MSG is an ideal venue for minimizing external exposure and protecting privacy due to its lack of windows.

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