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Swift Pays $160K for Wedding Police Overtime
10 Jul
Summary
- Taylor Swift covered over $160,000 for police overtime.
- The payment was for a permit for her Madison Square Garden wedding.
- The wedding took place on July 2 and July 3.

Taylor Swift covered the substantial cost of police overtime for her wedding to Travis Kelce. The billionaire pop star paid over $160,000 for a permit that included increased law enforcement personnel for the event held at Madison Square Garden. Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed Swift had already settled the permit fee.
The wedding took place across July 2 and July 3. This permit is standard procedure for large private events requiring public space or city services. Given the wedding's estimated eight-figure cost, the permit fee represented a small fraction of the total expenditure.