Although Taylor Swift is on the street along with her Eras tour, that didn’t cease one obvious fan from stopping by the singer-songwriter’s Rhode Island residence, regardless of warnings to remain away. Police say {that a} 54-year-old lady was arrested this week after Swift’s personal safety advised her to go away the house’s entrance gate space and she or he balked, the newest in a sequence of trespassers which have swarmed the mansion since Swift bought it a decade in the past.
Westerly Police Chief Paul Gingerella tells CNN that the arrest was made on July 3, after the lady—named by TMZ as Kimberly Meyer—was reported as a trespasser on the property, simply outdoors its entrance gates. She was nonetheless there when police arrived, and was cuffed, arrested, and charged with one misdemeanor depend of trespassing. She’s since been launched and is anticipated to seem in court docket for her arraignment on July 14.
In 2013, Rhode Island Month-to-month reported that Swift purchased the house within the tony enclave of Watch Hill for $17.75 million, spurring complaints from beachgoers over her allegedly overzealous safety element and interesting in an uncomfortable dispute with an area t-shirt maker that designed a Swift-themed shirt to commemorate her arrival within the area.
As Swift settled into the five-acre, 11,000-square-foot property, a brand new problem arose: trespassers began to go to the property, the Washington Submit reviews, together with notes left for Swift on the gates and a Chicago man who tried to swim to the house. In a first-person account revealed by Elle in 2019, Swift mentioned that “web sites and tabloids have taken it upon themselves to submit each residence deal with I’ve ever had on-line.” (That’s actually true for this residence, the deal with for which popped up on Google right away.) “You get sufficient stalkers attempting to interrupt into your home,” she mentioned, “and also you sort of begin prepping for unhealthy issues.”
Stalkers and trespassers have additionally dogged Swift elsewhere, as has been wildly reported. In June, 36-year-old Indiana man Mitchell Taebel was arrested on “fees of stalking by threatening critical harm or loss of life, intimidation, invasion of privateness and harassment” after an alleged sequence of escalating threats and makes an attempt to achieve Swift at her residence in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s anticipated to seem in court docket on July 27, the New York Submit reviews.
It’s unclear if Swift was residence on the time of this newest incident, as TMZ claims she was in Rhode Island for the July 4 vacation, and a social media post from Swift suggests she was celebrating with buddies, together with the Haim sisters and Selena Gomez.
