A look at Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks’ friendship 

From collaborations to poems, here’s everything you need to know about Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks’ friendship. 

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How Taylor Swift and Stevie Nick first met 

Swift and Nicks first met at the 2010 Grammy Awards when they performed a medley of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” and Swift’s “You Belong With Me.” 

“She’s 20 years old, 5 ft. 11 in. and slender; I’m 40 years older and, to be frank, neither of the other two things! I was not about to stand next to this girl on national television,” Nicks wrote in an excerpt for the 2010 TIME 100, according to our sister site Us Weekly. “But her little face just lights up like a star, and I couldn’t say no.”

Following that performance, Swift went on to release a song called “Mean,” which many people believe was her response to longtime music critic Bob Lefsetz’s review of that 2010 performance. The song was then re-recorded and re-released in 2023 on Swift’s album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).

I wanted to get better, to challenge myself, and to build on my skills as a writer, an artist, and a performer. I didn’t want to just be handed respect and acceptance in my field. I wanted to earn it,” Swift wrote in the album’s vinyl prologue. “To try and confront these demons, I underwent extensive vocal training and made a decision that would completely define this album: I decided I would write it entirely on my own. I figured, they couldn’t give all the credit to my cowriters if there weren’t any. But that posed a new challenge: It really had to be good. If it wasn’t, I would be proving my critics right.” 

Stevie Nicks opens up about how Taylor Swift’s music helped her 

Following that 2010 collaboration, Nicks and Swift continued to stay in touch. They mentioned each other in interviews and had nothing but nice things to say. Those moments were short though, but in 2023 Nicks revealed that Swift’s song “You’re on Your Own, Kid”—which appeared on her 2022 album Midnights—actually helped her get over the devastating loss of Nicks’s bandmate Christine McVie.

“Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing this thing for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid,’” Nicks said, according to Rolling Stone. “That is the sadness of how I feel. As long as Chris was, even on the other side of the world, we didn’t have to talk on the phone. We really weren’t phone buddies. Then we would go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we would walk in and it would be like ‘little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed, never an argument in our entire 47 years.” 

“So, when it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids, we always were. And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself,” the singer continued. “ So, you help me to do that. Thank you.”

Taylor Swift calls out Stevie Nicks

Perhaps one of the best moments in Swift and Nicks’s friendship was when Swift released the song “Clara Bow” on her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department and called out Nicks.

“You look like Stevie Nicks in ’75, the hair and lips,” Swift sang. “Crowd goes wild at her fingertips, half moonshine, a full eclipse.”

Nicks also wrote a poem for that album, and while it wasn’t about their friendship, it did call out the loss and heartbreak both women have been through. 

“He was in love with her. Or at least she thought so .She was broken-hearted. Maybe he was too. Neither of them knew,” Nicks wrote. “She was way too hot to handle. He was way too high to try, He couldn’t even see her. He wouldn’t open his eyes. She was on her way to the stars.” 

Since the album’s release, Swift has only performed “Clara Bow” live once—and it just so happened to be at the Eras Tour concert that Nicks attended. 

“I’ve never played this song live at all and the reason I want to play this tonight is because a friend of mine is here, who is watching the show and has really been one of the reasons why I or any female artist gets to do what we do,” Swift said before she performed it. “She paved the way for us.”

“She’s a hero of mine and also someone I could tell her any secret [and] she’d never tell anybody. She’s really helped me through so much over the years,” the singer continued. “I’m talking about Stevie Nicks.”

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Taylor Swift reveals that she calls Stevie Nicks

While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2025, Swift revealed that she does in fact “have Stevie Nicks in my life in a way that affects me positively constantly.”

“Being able to talk with her and have a phone call with her and hear what she’s been through…she paved the way for me and many other artists out there,” she continued. “I feel like she has lended her very magical, wonderful, wise approach.”

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After Swift and Kelce got engaged in August 2025, fans all over the world were wondering who was going to be invited and what the ceremony was going to look like. And while some details still remain a mystery, it has been confirmed that Nicks was in attendance and even sang a song at the ceremony.

“We can confirm that, yes, Stevie Nicks did perform,” Robin Roberts—who attended the couple’s wedding—said on Good Morning America earlier today, according to People magazine. “It was really intimate.”

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For fans who remember when Elizabeth Taylor waved a 33.19-carat rock at reporters like it was a wristwatch, Swift’s choice feels less like coincidence and more like a wink across the decades.

The ring Travis Kelce chose

The bauble Kelce slid onto Swift’s finger is a showstopper by any measure. Designed by Kindred Lubeck at Artifex Fine Jewelry, it features an old mine brilliant cut diamond—a pre-modern stone characterized by imperfect symmetry, a cushion shape and chunky, hand-cut facets—set on a gold band with smaller stones and a thin bezel. It’s the kind of ring that looks like it was pulled from an estate sale in 1912, which is precisely the point.

Jewelry expert Nilesh Rakholia, founder of Abelini, told Us Weekly that the stone “looks to be easily in the 7–10 carat range, which immediately places it among the most iconic celebrity engagement rings.” His estimate: somewhere between $950,000 and $1,270,000. Jeweler Laura Taylor, who specializes in engagement and wedding rings, went further, suggesting the diamond could reach up to 12 carats and was “easily worth” $1 million.

And here’s the part that will make Hollywood historians smile: Kelce picked it out himself.

“Travis is incredibly thoughtful. He had a clear vision of what he wanted,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly. “He chose it almost entirely on his own. He knows her so well and what she likes—a timeless, classic, vintage touch.” The insider added that Kelce is “very observant and in tune with” Swift’s preferred style. “He considered everything about what she’d like and want, and he paid attention to the jewelry she wears often for inspiration.”

Timeless. Classic. Vintage. Those aren’t accidental words—they’re the exact aesthetic Swift wove into her song “Elizabeth Taylor,” and the aesthetic she pays tribute to in the accompanying music video.

“All my white diamonds and lovers are forever”

In her track “Elizabeth Taylor,” Swift sings, “All my white diamonds and lovers are forever”—a lyric that lands differently when you know the music video features footage of Elizabeth Taylor’s legendary diamond ring. That ring, now known as the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond, has a backstory more dramatic than most of the films the actress starred in.

It began as the Krupp Diamond, a 33.19-carat Asscher-cut stone (similar to an emerald cut) prized as a Type IIa gem for its exceptional chemical purity and transparency. Vera Krupp received it from her husband, German industrialist Alfried Krupp, in the early 1950s.

Then came the heist.

On April 10, 1959, three men broke into Vera Krupp’s Nevada ranch and ripped the diamond off her hand. The theft triggered a nationwide FBI investigation that spanned six weeks before agents finally tracked the stone to New Jersey. Vera got the ring back, but after the ordeal she kept it hidden whenever she went out in public.

After Krupp died in 1968, the diamond went to auction in New York. And that’s where Richard Burton stepped in.

Richard Burton, the yacht and a gift for the ages

Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were, by 1968, already Hollywood’s most operatic couple. They’d met filming 1963’s “Cleopatra”—both married to other people at the time, Taylor to Eddie Fisher and Burton to Sybil Williams. Their affair scandalized the industry, ended two marriages and produced one of their own in 1964.

At auction, Burton bid on the Krupp Diamond and won it for $307,000—the equivalent of nearly $3.5 million today. Not as an engagement ring; the two were already married. He simply wanted her to have it. He presented the diamond to Taylor while the couple was aboard their yacht, and from that day forward, it lived on her finger.

Taylor wore the ring daily. It was her favorite “day-to-day” piece, worn to galas, on film sets and through the twists of her life. When she and Burton divorced in 1974—only to remarry in 1975 and divorce again in 1976—the ring stayed. It outlasted the marriage twice over.

From Christie’s auction to Taylor Swift’s music video

When Elizabeth Taylor died in 2011, Christie’s put the diamond up for auction, and the ring was formally renamed the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond in her honor. It sold for $8.8 million to a representative of the Korean E-Land Group, and it’s believed to remain part of their private collection.

Which is what makes its appearance in Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor” music video such a poetic full-circle moment. The pop star, named after the actress by her mother, borrows the diamond—if only in footage—to accompany a song that meditates on love, legacy and the way white diamonds outlast almost everything else.

Then, months later, Swift accepts her own vintage-cut diamond from Kelce.

A Cartier watch and a wedding for the ages

Swift didn’t just wear the ring in her engagement photos. She styled it with a Cartier watch featuring a matching gold wristlet and diamond face—a bit of jewelry choreography Elizabeth Taylor herself would have approved of.

Ahead of the couple’s July 3, 2026, wedding at Madison Square Garden, Swift stepped out in Nashville wearing a red M’rhen Camila Day Dress and roughly $15,000 in jewelry, including a Sophie Jane Jewels diamond horseshoe necklace (about $4,485), a $9,400 Cartier Love bracelet and, of course, her Kindred Lubeck ring, which she now wears with custom engravings added to the band.

On July 3, 2026, Swift and Kelce, both 36, said “I do” at Madison Square Garden. Digital billboards outside the venue lit up with the message: “JusT&T Married.”

“Whenever I’m with her, it feels like we’re just regular people,” Kelce told GQ in September 2025. “When there is not a camera on us, we’re just two people that are in love.”

Elizabeth Taylor might have laughed at “regular people.” But she would have understood the ring—and understood, better than anyone, that a great diamond has a way of outliving everyone who ever wore it.

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A friendship bracelet started it all

Here’s the part that gets us every time. Back in July 2023, Travis attended one of Taylor’s Eras Tour concerts in Kansas City, Missouri, hoping to hand her a friendship bracelet with his phone number tucked inside. He never got the chance. Instead of tucking his tail and going home, this sweet man went on his podcast, “New Heights,” with brother Jason Kelce and told the whole world how disappointed he was.

Word made its way back to Taylor, thanks to some mutual friends who spoke up on his behalf. “There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Yo! Did you know he was coming?” Travis recalled to WSJ. Magazine in November 2023. “I had somebody playing Cupid.”

Taylor, for her part, was tickled by his boldness. “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she told TIME in December 2023. She added something we especially loved: “We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.”

By the time she showed up cheering at her first Kansas City Chiefs game that September, the two were already a couple. “We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date,” Taylor quipped.

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Two years of quiet courtship later, in August 2025, Travis got down on one knee. The couple shared the happy news on Instagram with the cheeky caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

But it’s the ring itself that has our hearts. Travis designed it himself, working with jeweler Kindred Lubeck at Artifex Fine Jewelry. It features an old mine brilliant-cut diamond—a beautifully vintage style that harkens back to another era—set on a gold band with smaller stones alongside.

“Travis is incredibly thoughtful. He had a clear vision of what he wanted,” a source told Us Weekly. “He chose it almost entirely on his own. He knows her so well and what she likes—a timeless, classic, vintage touch.”

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Turns out, Travis had been paying attention for a long, long time. Taylor revealed on the U.K.’s Heart radio station in October 2025 that she’d shown him a video of Lubeck’s work “a year and a half ago, and he was just paying attention to everything, it turns out!”

“When I saw the ring, I was just, like, [gasping],” she continued. “I was like, ‘I know who made that! I know who made that! And also, you listen to me.’ He did amazing. It was like, ‘You really know me.'”

Now, if that doesn’t make you smile, we don’t know what will. A man who listens? That’s the real treasure.

A wedding day dressed by Dior

For her walk down the aisle, Taylor wore a bespoke Christian Dior Haute Couture gown, designed by Jonathan Anderson in close collaboration with the bride and groom themselves. According to a press release, this marks Anderson’s first couture wedding dress for a world-renowned celebrity. Her shoes were custom-made by Christian Louboutin, and she chose Cartier jewelry to complete the look.

About 1,000 guests filled Madison Square Garden—a mix of Taylor’s famous friends and Travis’s Kansas City Chiefs teammates. Rather than mail out hard copy invitations (privacy concerns, you understand), the couple simply let their closest circle know the date and venue.

Taylor had shared her hopes for the day back in October 2025, saying she didn’t want a small wedding where guests were “on the bubble.” “I know it’s gonna be fun to plan because I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount [of room] and people are on the bubble and you have to evaluate or assess your relationship with them,” she said on The Graham Norton Show. Bless her heart—she wanted room for everyone she loves.

The gift that stole our hearts

Now, here comes the part we simply had to share. Ahead of their wedding, Taylor and Travis donated a jaw-dropping $26 million to charities close to their hearts. Among the recipients? Dolly Parton’s beloved Imagination Library, which received $2 million.

If you’re not familiar with the Imagination Library, oh, you’re in for a treat. Dolly founded the program back in 1995, and since then it has delivered more than 120 million free books to children all around the world. Every month, enrolled children receive a book in the mail, free of charge—building their very own home libraries and their love of reading.

And the reason Dolly started it? Well, get your tissues ready.

“Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me because I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy,” Dolly shared in a letter to fans. “He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams.”

Dolly took to Instagram to thank Taylor and Travis in the sweetest way possible. “Taylor and Travis, it’s Dolly! And I was just told that you two are making a donation of $2 million to my Imagination Library,” she said. “Thank you, thank you, thank you—I’m blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude.” Then, being Dolly, she added a tongue-in-cheek joke: “Now, it’s evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives…so hey, when you have your first born, can I have it? Because that is going to be one special baby!”

Before signing off, she blew a kiss and playfully sang, “And know I will always love you.”

A mutual admiration society

Taylor and Dolly have long shared a bond of mutual respect. “She’s so smart, she’s so great—she’s a genius really,” Dolly said on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2023.

Taylor returned the sentiment with equal warmth, telling The Hollywood Reporter that year, “Dolly is a force of evolution and transformation in our industry, but she does it with such playful levity it almost looks effortless. She’s never stopped challenging herself to clear new hurdles and explore new territory artistically… She’s a legendary empath and the storyteller for the ages.”

Their giving didn’t stop there. Taylor and Travis also donated to food banks including City Harvest, Feeding America and Harvesters in Kansas City, along with children’s hospitals, education programs and youth organizations across the country.

What a lovely way to begin a marriage—by giving to others.

Taylor Swift, for all her sparkle and stadium tours, has written that kind of song more often than her critics might admit. And now, at 36, she has stepped into her own love story with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. The couple got engaged in August 2025 and are gathering friends and family at Madison Square Garden on July 3, 2026, to celebrate their nuptials, according to Us Weekly.

For anyone who has been married a long while—or is still hoping to be—some of Swift’s songs read like little love letters to the whole beautiful arc of a life shared. Here are the ones worth revisiting.

‘Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)’ — a love that lasts a lifetime

If you listen to just one Taylor Swift song this week, make it this one. Tucked away on her 2006 self-titled debut, “Mary’s Song” was inspired by her former neighbors, a couple whose childhood romance carried them all the way into their 60s.

Swift narrates their story from the beginning — two kids in a backyard, “our world was one block wide.” A dare to kiss. A running away. And then, years later, a proposal at their favorite spot in town.

“Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle,” she sings. “Our whole town came and our mamas cried / You said, ‘I do,’ and I did, too.”

By the final verse, she is looking ahead to the years that stretch on beyond the wedding day: “I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89 / I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my my my.”

If that lyric doesn’t make you glance across the room at the person you built a life with, nothing will.

‘You Are in Love’ — the quiet everyday moments

Featured on her 1989 album, “You Are in Love” is not about the sweeping cinematic kind of romance. It is about the small proof — the picture kept on an office desk, the dancing in a kitchen, the way you finally understand a song lyric you’ve heard your whole life.

Swift wrote it about her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff and his then-girlfriend, Lena Dunham, after Antonoff sent her the backing track.

“Immediately I knew the song it needed to be,” Swift told American Songwriter. “I wrote it as a kind of commentary on what their relationship has been like. So it’s actually me looking and going and ‘This happened and that happened then that happened’ and that’s how you knew, ‘You are in love.'”

The lyric that stops you: “You two are dancing in a snow globe, ’round and ’round / And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown / And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I’ve spent my whole life tryin’ to put it into words.”

‘Daylight’ — when love is golden, not red

Somewhere between our 20s and our 60s, most of us learn the same lesson Swift sings about in “Daylight,” from her 2019 Lover album. She once believed, as she wrote in her 2012 song “Red,” that love would be burning and passionate and consuming. Time taught her otherwise.

“I once believed love would be black and white,” she sings. “But it’s golden.”

Ask any woman who has been married a long time what love actually looks like, and she will probably tell you the same thing. It is not red. It is warm and steady and gold — morning coffee, a hand on your back in a crowd, the person who remembers your doctor’s appointment.

“I don’t wanna look at anything else now that I saw you,” Swift sings. “I’ve been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night / And now I see daylight, I only see daylight.”

‘New Year’s Day’ — the morning after

Everyone celebrates New Year’s Eve. Swift writes about the morning after, when the confetti is on the floor and the champagne bottles need to go to the recycling.

“I want your midnights,” she sings, “but I’ll be cleanin’ up bottles with you on New Year’s Day.”

That is the whole vow, really, tucked into a single lyric. The willingness to stay for the tidying up. The promise to show up on the ordinary mornings, not just the sparkling nights.

“Don’t read the last page,” she sings. “But I stay when it’s hard or it’s wrong or we’re makin’ mistakes.”

Any woman who has been through decades of anniversaries knows those are the lines that matter.

‘Lover’ — a vow set to music

The title track of her 2019 album Lover reads like wedding vows put to a slow, sighing melody. The bridge even opens with, “Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand?”

“With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover,” Swift sings. “My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue / All’s well that ends well to end up with you.”

For couples looking for a first dance that feels like a promise all over again, Swift released a slowed-down version called “Lover (First Dance Remix).” Us Weekly notes it has already become a favorite among couples planning their weddings.

‘Paper Rings’ — the sweet, silly kind of devotion

Not every love song has to be slow. “Paper Rings,” also from Lover, is a bouncy, joyful declaration that Swift would marry her partner with a paper ring if that was all he had.

“I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings,” she sings. “Darling, you’re the one I want.”

It is the kind of song for anyone who remembers the early scrappy years of a marriage — the tiny apartment, the secondhand furniture, the fact that none of it mattered because you were together.

‘Wish List’ — the whole dream

On her 2025 album Showgirl, released after her engagement to Kelce, Swift finally spells out the life she wants. “Wish List” reads like a woman who has stopped pretending she does not want the ordinary miracle of a settled life.

“I just want you / Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you,” she sings. “We tell the world to leave us the f— alone, and they do.”

She dreams about “a driveway with a basketball hoop.” She sings, “Boss up, settle down, got a wish list.”

For a woman in her late 50s or 60s watching Swift’s story unfold, there is something deeply lovely about seeing this global superstar admit what most of us figured out long ago. The wish list is short. It really is. You. A home. A few kids running around. The world leaving you be.

Some things — thank goodness — never really change.

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Here’s where it gets deliciously juicy. As Us Weekly points out via Architectural Digest, one of Swift’s biggest idols — Elizabeth Taylor herself — was among the guests at a legendary party thrown at that very same venue back in 1957.

Taylor’s husband at the time, movie producer Mike Todd, hosted the lavish bash to celebrate the first anniversary of his Oscar-winning film Around the World in 80 Days. And this wasn’t just any party. According to The New York Times in 2008, Todd filled MSG with 18,000 guests, 12 elephants, 400 members of the press, 4,000 pizzas, 36,000 doughnuts and 25,000 hot dogs. (Yes, you read that correctly. Twelve. Elephants.)

The evening was even broadcast on television, with CBS’s Walter Cronkite covering the affair — which he reportedly later described as “an essay on empty extravagance.” Ouch, Walter. Taylor herself played a starring role in the night, cutting into a 14-foot-high cake.

Todd, who tragically died in a plane crash just a year later, apparently had some regrets. “It taught me a lesson. I’ll never have a party for 18,000 people. Never more than 17,500 people. 18,000 gets unwieldy,” he said, per the Times.

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About that ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ song…

If you haven’t yet listened to Swift’s track “Elizabeth Taylor” from her October 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl, now’s the moment. The song is a treasure chest of nods to the late Hollywood icon, and once you know what to listen for, you’ll never hear it the same way again.

Swift explained the inspiration in an interview with Elvis Duran: “In this record, there’s a song called ‘Elizabeth Taylor,’ which is sort of my emotions and my issues with fame through the lens of cosplaying the life of Elizabeth Taylor, so you kind of meld the two experiences together. She is always someone that I’ve looked up to as being this very glamorous, very beloved, but for some reason a polarizing figure, which I found myself in that place, too.”

Let’s walk through the Easter eggs Woman’s World tracked down, one glittering breadcrumb at a time.

The violet eyes. Elizabeth Taylor was famous for her arresting violet eyes, and Swift honors them with the line, “I’d cry my eyes violet, Elizabeth Taylor.”

The Portofino romance. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — one of the most iconic Hollywood pairings ever — got engaged at Plaza Athénée in Portofino, Italy. Swift references it with, “That view of Portofino was on my mind when you called me at the Plaza Athénée.” (The Burton-Taylor romance was a scandalous, twice-married-twice-divorced situation. They wed in 1964, divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, and split again in 1976. Truly, they gave “on again, off again” its whole legacy.)

The Musso and Frank’s booth. Musso and Frank’s is Hollywood’s first-ever restaurant, and Elizabeth Taylor was a regular. Turns out, so is Swift, who sings, “We hit the best booth at Musso and Frank’s.”

The Hollywood callout. Even though Swift is primarily a singer, she includes the line “when Hollywood hates me” — a wink toward Taylor, who spent her entire career navigating (and occasionally being chewed up by) that world.

The jewels. Anyone who’s ever glanced at a photo of Elizabeth Taylor knows the woman loved her jewelry. Swift references it twice: “Babe, I would trade the Cartier for someone to trust (Just kidding)” and, during the bridge, “All my white diamonds and lovers are forever.”

That white diamonds lyric? It’s not just poetry. It’s about a very real, very famous ring.

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Wedding bells are ringing for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The couple officially tied the knot on Friday, July 3, at New York City’s Madison Square Garden Learn more about Swift and Kelce’s wedding aesthetic and find out how you can recreate the look on a budget in your own home. What is the Taylor […]

The 33-carat rock that’s practically a character in the video

The “Elizabeth Taylor” music video, released in March, features archival footage of the Hollywood legend — including her legendary diamond ring. The story behind that ring is worthy of its own miniseries.

The stone is a 33.19 carat Asscher-cut diamond, Type IIa (a designation for its exceptional purity), originally known as the Krupp Diamond. Before Elizabeth Taylor ever laid eyes on it, the ring belonged to Vera Krupp, wife of German industrialist Alfried Krupp, who gave it to her in the early 1950s. Then, in 1959, the ring was famously stolen right off Vera’s hand when three men broke into her Nevada ranch. An FBI investigation eventually recovered it in New Jersey six weeks later.

After Vera Krupp’s death, Richard Burton snapped it up at a New York auction for $307,000 (about $3.5 million today) and gifted it to Elizabeth Taylor while they were on their yacht. She wore it daily—even after they divorced—right up until she died in 2011. It was then renamed the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond and auctioned by Christie’s for $8.8 million to a representative of the Korean E-Land Group.

Taylor’s estate approved of Swift’s homage, telling TMZ that the music video is “an homage in the truest sense.” The statement continued: “We are delighted by this celebration and the care with which Taylor Swift has spotlighted what so many have long understood: Elizabeth Taylor was a true icon, a trailblazer in every sense of the word. She lived unapologetically and on her own terms.”

And one more Easter egg for the road

Long before “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift was already dropping Elizabeth Taylor references. On her 2017 “Reputation” track “…Ready For It?”, she sang, “You could be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor.”

Which raises the question every Swiftie is now asking: Is that a breadcrumb pointing toward the highly anticipated “Reputation” re-release and Vault Tracks?

Only time — and Taylor — will tell. But between the MSG wedding rumors, the archival diamond footage and eight years of Elizabeth Taylor callbacks, one thing is clear: our girl has been playing the long game. Text your daughter. She’s going to want to know.

Here, we gathered up all the charities benefiting from their donations—and how their contributions are making a meaningful difference in communities across the country. Plus, keep reading to find out exactly what Dolly and Taylor think about each other! Their mutual admiration makes this gift even sweeter.

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Expands Across the United States

Dolly Parton is giving back to a cause near and dear to her heart. The country superstar has begun her mission of improving children’s literacy all over the country by starting her Imagination Library book giveaway program.   Parton’s program has expanded across 21 states, as well as several countries. Children in these states under the […]

What do Dolly and Taylor have to say about each other?

Taylor and Dolly have a history of mutual admiration—and this generous pre-wedding gift is just the latest chapter in their friendship. “She’s so smart, she’s so great—she’s a genius really,” Dolly said on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2023. 

And it’s safe to say the feeling is mutual. When asked what she thinks about the Queen of Country, Taylor didn’t hesitate to share her praise. “Dolly is a force of evolution and transformation in our industry, but she does it with such playful levity it almost looks effortless,” Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023.

“She’s never stopped challenging herself to clear new hurdles and explore new territory artistically, and I think that speaks to her great curiosity about the human condition,” continued Swift. “She’s a legendary empath and the storyteller for the ages. She’s also having the most fun doing it.” 

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Taylor Swift Wrote an Original Song for ‘Toy Story 5’—Here’s the Story

The original Toy Story, which premiered in 1995, is woven into the fabric of our culture. Maybe it was a VHS tape on rainy afternoons. Maybe it was the bedtime ritual of “You’ve got a friend in me” sung softly to a sleepy toddler. Either way, the news that Taylor Swift has written an original […]

How Taylor’s donation will help young readers

Dolly founded the Imagination Library in 1995, and since then the cherished program has delivered more than 120 million free books to children all around the world. The mission is deeply personal for the country music icon, who created it in honor of her father, whose inability to read inspired her lifelong commitment to helping children discover the joy of books.

“Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me because I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy,” Dolly recalled in a letter to fans. “He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams.”

At first, Dolly’s dream was to simply inspire and help young readers in her hometown—but it quickly gained worldwide recognition. “Here we are today with a worldwide program that gives a book a month to well over 3 million children,” she continued in the letter. “Of course, I have not done this alone. The real heroes of our story are the thousands of local organizations who have embraced my dream and made it their own. They raise millions of dollars each year and wake up every day with a passion to make sure their kids have every opportunity to succeed.”

Dolly’s reaction to Taylor and Travis’ donation

Dolly was thrilled to receive the news of Taylor and Travis’ donation. She took to Instagram to share her heartfelt thanks—and even peppered in a Dolly-style tongue-in-cheek joke. “Taylor and Travis, it’s Dolly! And I was just told that you two are making a donation of $2 million to my Imagination Library,” Dolly said. “Thank you, thank you, thank you—I’m blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude. Now, it’s evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives…so hey, when you have your first born, can I have it? Because that is going to be one special baby!”

After cracking the joke with a smile, the country icon continued showing her gratitude. “You know the mission of the Dollywood Foundation to dream more, care more, learn more and be more. And thank you again for your very generous gift! We’ll continue that mission even in bigger ways now with your money. And know I will always love you,” she playfully sang to the camera and blew a kiss.

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How Dolly Parton Uses Her $650 Million Net Worth To Help Those in Need

With an estimated net worth of $650 million, it would make total sense if country music superstar Dolly Parton spent it all on superficial things. But the truth is, while we all know she loves her makeup, wigs and sparkles, we’re just as aware that she loves to give back. Below, we have rounded up […]

What other charities did Taylor and Travis donate to?

Earlier today, a rep for Taylor told People that Taylor and Travis made a generous $26 million donation to an array of organizations “this week.”

In addition to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Swift and Kelce donated to a wide range of organizations, including City Harvest, the Food Bank for New York City, New York Cares, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Harvesters in Kansas City, Brad Paisley and Kimberly Paisley’s The Store in Nashville, Helping Harvest in Pennsylvania, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Feeding America, the ASPCA and Grammy in the Schools.

But that’s not all! Taylor and Travis also extended their generosity to a range of education, health and youth-focused organizations, including Education Through Music, Answer the Call and Musical Mentors, as well as After-School All-Stars in both New York and Cleveland. Their donations further supported pediatric care and research through MSK Kids (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

The latest on Taylor and Travis’ happily ever after

The whole world continues to buzz with all things Taylor and Travis as their big day, well, swiftly approaches. The superstar pair is expected to tie the knot at Madison Square Garden in New York City this weekend—but details are limited! Earlier this week, sources told People that the interior of Madison Square Garden underwent a total makeover. The venue is apparently “transformed,” the source said. “I’ve never seen it look so different.”

Woman’s World wishes the couple all the best as the celebrations begin—and our book-loving hearts are especially grateful that Dolly’s beloved program is part of the story!

As Parton became one of the biggest stars in the world, Dean preferred a quiet life away from the cameras—a remarkable choice given his wife’s global fame. The couple spent nearly 59 years together before Dean died in March 2025 at age 82. Read on to learn how the pair met, what Dean thought when he first laid eyes on Parton and what their small wedding day was really like.

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Dolly Opens up About Her Marriage to Carl: ‘We Were Different People’

Country music superstar Dolly Parton recently appeared on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast Khloé in Wonderland to share some new details on her marriage to Carl Thomas Dean, who died this past March. From why they kept their relationship out of the spotlight, to how his death impacted Parton’s music career, the “Jolene” singer shared it all. […]

Dolly’s wedding was very small

For a superstar like Dolly Parton, you might’ve expected the singer would have a huge bash full of celebrities and friends and family. However, Parton and her husband opted for a much smaller affair, thanks to a warning from her then manager, Fred Foster. 

Although the couple had expected to have a larger party, Foster told Parton that tying the knot would “make it so much harder” with “all this promotion,” as she was on the verge of her big break. So the two eloped to Ringgold, Georgia, where they exchanged vows in front of the pastor, his wife and Parton’s mother, Avie Lee Owens.

For the wedding dress, Parton went for a more understated look than her usual attire, opting for a simple, white, knee-length dress. As for the rings, Parton and Dean had to borrow money from his mother to get them. 

“When my husband and I got married back in 1966, we didn’t have the money to buy anything, but my mother-in-law, Carl’s mother, she had a credit at Sears, a charge account,” Parton explained. “So we bought our rings at Sears on her account. I was working a little bit and [Carl] was working, so we paid her every month on my wedding rings.”

How did the couple meet?

Parton and Dean had a very simple meeting that feels straight out of a romantic comedy. The two first locked eyes while outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. 

“I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me, he looked at my face (a rare thing for me),” Parton explained of their meeting. “He seemed to be genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I was about.”

Dean recalled the thoughts that were running through his mind when he first met Parton. He said, “My first thought was ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,’ My second thought was, ‘Lord she’s good lookin.’ And that was the day my life began. I wouldn’t trade the last 50 years for nothing on this earth.”

It was just two years after that first meeting that the couple decided to get married on May 30, 1966. Then fifty years later, the couple decided to renew their vows on May 30, 2016. This time, the couple had the big, elaborate ceremony they couldn’t have the first time around. 

“If I had it to do all over, I’d do it all over again, and we did,” Parton said of their vow renewal. “I’m dragging him kicking and screaming into the next 50 years.”

Years ago, Stella opened up for Joan Rivers in Vegas, and over the years, she’s even woven some elements of stand-up into her live performances. As she enjoys the journey of recording music once again, Stella Parton got candid in an exclusive conversation with Woman’s World about her comedic side. 

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Meet Dolly Parton’s 11 Siblings

Dolly Parton, 80, knows a little something about the meaning of family. The country star was the fourth born of 12 children, with six brothers and five sisters to lean on over the years. While Dolly went on to become a superstar and legendary musician, many of her siblings caught the creative bug as well, […]

Stella Parton knows how to work an audience

Growing up as one of 12 children, Stella’s confidence came from within, and if you’ve ever watched her perform, you can see it clearly. In addition to her musical talent, she shares the same wit and charisma as her sister Dolly, and the musician says she’s used that when performing to “try to get the audience on my side.”

“I always had to rely on my sense of humor on stage, because before I ever walked out on stage, people always already had a preconceived notion of who I was, what I was supposed to look like, what my figure was supposed to look like and how I was supposed to sing. But I’ve always been funny; I’ve always been sarcastic as hell and I’m quick-witted,” she explained. 

For Stella, her sense of humor is simply a part of who she is, and that quick wit and comedic timing is something that comes naturally to her. 

“I love to make people laugh. Sometimes I’d make mistakes on stage and I’d turn it into a joke because I’m so quick-witted, and then I would remember it and keep it for the next show and repeat it again. And then before I knew it, I had a lot of humor incorporated into my performances over the years that I toured—which was over 50 years. But I think if you can make people laugh, you can make them feel good.”

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Dolly Parton's New Travel Stop Has a 'Doggy Parton' Dog Park

Picture this: You’ve been stuck in a cramped car for hours, your legs are aching, you’re in desperate need of a bathroom break and your stomach is growling for something other than a stale granola bar and a bag of chips gobbled down after your last pitstop.  As you make your way down the highway, […]

Stella Parton: A ‘messenger of hope’

Connecting with people and uplifting others is of the utmost importance to Stella, and providing comfort through humor is one of the best ways she knows how. 

“I’m a messenger of hope,” she explained. “No one ever bragged about me being a great vocalist or a beautiful woman or anything, but everybody knew I could out-entertain most of them, and I have always done that. Not because I had hit records all over the place or anything, but I could keep people entertained, and that’s what I thought my job was, and that’s what I was getting paid to do—entertain people.”

As Stella continues her musical journey and prepares to share new music with the world, one thing remains constant: her commitment to lifting spirits and spreading joy. Whether she’s hitting the high notes or landing the perfect punchline, this messenger of hope reminds us all that laughter truly is one of life’s greatest gifts

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Sam Elliott Called 'Yellowstone' a 'Cowboy Soap Opera'—Then This Happened

As Taylor Sheridan promotes his upcoming literary debut, How to Not Die in Prison: A Survival Guide, the Yellowstone creator has begun pulling the curtain back on all things Yellowstone, Landman and beyond. Earlier today, Sheridan sat down with Howard Stern for a candid conversation about his work and what the last several years have […]

Sheridan was introduced as Deputy Chief David Hale, one of the main antagonists in the show’s early seasons. His strict adherence to the law put him at constant odds with the club as he attempted to expose and punish them for their criminal ways, but he was ultimately killed off at the start of the third season when he quit the series. 

While Sheridan’s departure from the show has long been discussed, the famed TV and film writer got candid about what truly went down during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. While his departure was ultimately a blessing in disguise, as his treatment on the series prompted him to pursue writing and leave acting behind, he did refer to it as his “worst beating.”

Taylor Sheridan on his ‘Sons of Anarchy’ departure

Sheridan opened up about leaving the show, saying that despite being a less-than-ideal experience, it was also “the greatest gift that I ever got.”

He continued, “I literally would leave the set of that show and go to my other job, cause I didn’t make enough on that show to pay my rent and live. So after Season 2, I said, ‘Guys, I’m not coming back and doing this again for this price.’ I’m just not doing it. I want what the other 14 people—not even asking for what Charlie [Hunnam] gets or Katey [Sagal] or Ron Perlman—I just want what the other 11 guys are getting. And they couldn’t do it.”

He went on to explain that each of the additional 11 recurring cast members were being paid $20,000 per each of the 13 episodes “before taxes, before agents, before everything,” revealing that he wasn’t asking for an “exorbitant amount of money.” When he was only offered $15,000 per episode for ten episodes, he made the decision to say goodbye. 

“I do the math on it and I said, ‘That’s not a raise. What is that?’ And I said no, and my attorney responded to this business affairs guy. He said, ‘Look, I’ve got kids on cooking shows on YouTube that make more than that.’ And he goes, ‘Well, then the guy should go get a cooking show on YouTube. We just don’t have to pay him because there’s 50 of that dude. I can recast that guy tomorrow.’ And so I realized my value is I’m imminently replaceable and that my business did not respect me.”

Sheridan remembers thinking about his young son and the example he’d be setting for him. “So I quit the show. I said, look, whether you want to call it pride or ego or integrity, I don’t know what you call it, but I just realized I’ve maxed out what I can do as an actor in this industry. So, I’m not going to try to do it anymore. And the people that have all the power are the people telling stories. So, I’m going to tell my own stories. And so, that’s when I decided that I was going to write. I quit.”

It was a bold move—walking away from steady work with no guarantee of what would come next. Today, however, Taylor Sheridan’s story stands as a powerful reminder that sometimes the doors that close in our faces are actually pushing us toward our true calling.