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6 Things to Know About Rebekah Harkness, the Muse Behind Taylor Swift's 'The Last Great American Dynasty'

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Taylor Swift tells the story of "The Last Great American Dynasty" in her Folklore track about one of the wealthiest women in America, Rebekah West Harkness.

Billboard found out more information about the 20th-century socialite and how she compares to the Grammy award-winning singer. Harkness acquired an enormous amount of wealth after her second marriage to William Hale Harkness. The St.

Louis-born patron of the arts has many more titles to her name than "middle-class divorcée," which Swift calls her in the first verse.

That's how she was commonly regarded before marrying William Hale Harkness, the heir to the Standard Oil fortune. With Standard Oil being the largest oil refiner in the world as well as the world's first and largest

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