Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'Dancing with Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse's sex abuse charges upheld by judge
foxnews.comA judge upheld an 18-count indictment against "Dances with Wolves" actor Nathan Chasing Horse Friday. In an order issued late Friday afternoon, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said state prosecutors presented enough evidence for "a reasonable grand juror to conclude that the sexual assaults occurred" but found that there was no substantive testimony connecting Nathan Chasing Horse to the psilocybin mushrooms investigators found while searching his home.
So, Kierny tossed the drug trafficking charge. Chasing Horse pleaded not guilty to the charges in early March. He was indicted on charges of sexual assault of a minor, kidnapping, child abuse and lewdness.
He has been held on $300,000 bail since Jan. 31 after he was arrested at his home in Las Vegas. The prosecution has accused Chasing Horse of portraying himself as a medicine man to gain access to young women and to take underage wives.The alleged crimes date to the early 2000s and cross multiple U.S.
states, including Nevada, Montana and South Dakota, according to his indictment in state court. According to the prosecution, one of the girls sexually abused by Chasing Horse was 14 years old at the time the two had sex.The Oscar-winning actor allegedly told the girl that her ancestors' spirits had directed him to have sex with her. "Her mom is ill," Clark County prosecutor Stacy Kollins said in court Wednesday, "and she’s told that her virginity is the only pure part of her left, and she has to sacrifice this to maintain her mom’s health." Chasing Horse claimed Friday in a bid to have the charges dismissed that his sexual relations were consensual.
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