{"id":1945,"date":"2024-01-11T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T08:23:28","slug":"viral-image-does-not-show-taylor-swift-with-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afghanistan.factcrescendo.com\/english\/viral-image-does-not-show-taylor-swift-with-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"The viral image does not show Taylor Swift with Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The person in the viral image with Taylor Swift is not Jeffrey Epstein, but Monte Lipman, the CEO of Republic Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An image of American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift with her arm around a man is going viral on social media. The users who share the image claim that the man to be American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of pages of court filings related to a lawsuit against Ghislane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator in a scheme to exploit and sexually abuse minors, were released recently. Those records contain the names of dozens of celebrities, politicians, and other public figures. Against this backdrop this image of Swift has gone viral. But Taylor Swift’s name was not included in the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe caption of the viral post states, \u201cWow Taylor swift with Jeffery epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reverse image search of the image led us to the older posts and pictures of the same image from December 2021 on social media platforms. The original image was posted on Instagram on 16 December 2021, more than two years after Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in a jail cell while awaiting trial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person posing with Taylor Swift is actually Monte Lipman<\/a>, the co-founder and CEO of Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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