Taylor Swift paid NYC $160G in permit fees for wedding

Taylor Swift paid more than $160,000 for the permit for her recent wedding at Madison Square Garden, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters at a news conference Friday morning.

The money was paid "for that event and for the response to that event," Mamdani said in response to a reporter’s question about police overtime, according to a video posted on the mayor’s X account. "And that was a permit that was finalized, I think, in just the days before the event itself."

Swift, the billionaire pop star, married Travis Kelce, a star football player for the Kansas City Chiefs, in a secretive yet highly publicized wedding at Madison Square Garden on July 3. Reportedly featuring a celebrity-spangled guest list of 1,000, Paul McCartney as a guest performer and Adam Sandler as officiant, the wedding shut down several blocks around Madison Square Garden beginning around noon, as well as some areas the day prior. Scores of police officers were on hand to direct traffic and monitor pedestrian checkpoints.

Days after the wedding, Swift was spotted in Montana with her new brother-in-law, Jason Kelce, and his wife, Kylie, according to People magazine, which also reported that Swift and her husband are scheduled to attend NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster’s wedding in California on Saturday.

By Rafer Guzmán

rafer.guzman@newsday.com