Swift also mentions the debutante’s “bitch pack,” referring to her real-life group of prankster pals from school who enjoyed spiking punch bowls with mineral oil, filling swimming pools with Dom Perignon and swearing aloud on ocean liners. Apparently, Harkness liked to reward her boy-toys, because she soon made Castelli the artistic director of her ballet company. From petty paybacks to insane acts of karma, these bitter people somehow found the most ingenious ways…. Just after 1966, Harkness became a grandmother when her daughter Terry gave birth to a little girl. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Here are the most ... Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Here are the most beautiful animal photos of the year, Photography: The week in pictures (October 9-16).
Rebekah Harkness was practically destined to become a spoiled little rich girl. The lovely pair only made it four years before divorcing. Taylor Fans Think Her BF Joe Co-Wrote Two Songs, See Taylor Swift's Complete Beauty Evolution, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. If Harkness’s lovers are anything to go by, she was a wildcat in the bedroom. Candice Swanepoel hits Miami in a bikini and more ... Candice Swanepoel hits Miami in a bikini and more star snaps. Swift bought Harkness’s Rhode Island “Holiday House” in 2013 and used the near-palatial estate to throw her own lavish parties, notably her “Taymerica” July 4th bashes. William, 15 years her senior, saw Rebekah as a “naughty child” in need of a spanking. Please let us know if a fact we’ve published is inaccurate (or even if you just suspect it’s inaccurate) by reaching out to us at contribute@factinate.com. Privacy Policy By 1980, many of Harkness’s old friends had dropped off, and she was left with only her most sycophantic hangers-on. Suddenly, Rebekah was a rich widow—one of the wealthiest women in America, in fact.
Ironically nicknamed “The Chalice of Life,” the morbid monument stood right at the intersection between tacky and lavish, just like Rebekah herself.
Surprise, surprise, this phase didn’t last long.
As Swift mentions, Harkness was also friendly with Salvador Dalí; after she died of cancer in 1982 at the age of 67, she even requested her ashes be kept in a $250,000 custom urn of the artist’s design.
Catherine of Aragon is now infamous as King Henry VIII’s rejected queen—but few people know her even darker history. Well, Harkness couldn’t bear to be upstaged, so she unceremoniously fired Rhodes and doomed her own precious ballet company in the process. She loves Octavia Butler, Rocky IV, and the TV show Museum Secrets.
In the art world, the shade “International Klein Blue” is famous, and was custom-mixed by renowned artist Yves Klein in 1960. One day, Harkness’s antics were so extreme that they got her kicked off a cruise ship. Her wealthy neighbors had other ideas, and scornfully forced her to remove the unsightly object. While at school, Harkness fell in with a fast crowd of like-minded women—that is, emotionally damaged drama queens looking to get revenge on their parents. But Rebekah made the most of it…. When she was still desperately clinging to her ballet dreams, Harkness decided to install an enormous, blue plastic Geodesic dome right smack dab in the middle of her front lawn as a formal practice space for her failing dancers.
Swift even mentions Rhode Island, singing: "Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever/ Flew in all her Bitch Pack friends from the city/ Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names/ And blew through the money on the boys and the ballet.".
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Taylor Swift’s home in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, which was previously owned by Rebekah Harkness. In the "Cardigan" music video—that dropped Friday at midnight—she told fans, via comment section, that she purposely hid Easter Eggs throughout all the lyrics on Folklore. He was in prison.
Rebekah the Socialite. "I wonder if Taylor Swift might like to hear the story of the time a body washed up on the beach under her Watch Hill mansion," wrote one reporter for The Day at the time of her purchase.
The socialite was born in 1915 to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. Carol Ann Mossa/Shutterstock . In 1961, Harkness gave love another shot, marrying the prominent celebrity doctor Benjamin Harrison Kean. Harkness later admitted that she married the poor schmuck because she “had nothing else to do.” In fact, Rebekah had a much loftier—and extravagant—destiny in mind for herself. Not long after Rebekah’s passing, her daughter Edith finally managed to succeed in her suicide attempts.
I tried to get my ex-wife served with divorce papers. Though Harkness didn’t seem to care that he was using her, she probably should have…. In 2020, Swift then penned the song “the last great american dynasty,” which tells Harkness’s twisted story for the world.
Styling herself as the life of the party, Harkness did things like throw plates at the ship’s Filipino orchestra, swim in her birthday suit in full view of other passengers, and send out strings of obscenities so loudly that the ocean liner eventually had no choice but to send the beautiful, foul-mouthed socialite off the boat.
Rebekah’s parents hired one nanny specifically because the woman had worked in an insane asylum before. The others, they just know how to bite.” Wow, I’m getting the sense that these two really liked dirty talk. Now, her home’s previous owner, ….