Report: Taylor Swift did due diligence, declined to sign $100 million FTX sponsorship deal

thefader.com:

Adam Moskowitz — the attorney in charge of a class action lawsuit brought against FTX promoters including Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Brady, and Larry David — says Taylor Swift was one of only several celebrities who did their due diligence before agreeing to promote the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange.

On a new episode of The Scoop, a podcast from the crypto-focused online publication The Block, Moskowitz recalls his surprise at how many hugely popular figures hadn’t checked in with their own lawyers before signing massive contracts with the shady firm.

Swift, he says, was one of just a few who did. Read Next: TikTok catches Taylor Swift getting on stage via a cleaning cart “The one person I found that did that was Taylor Swift,” Moskowitz told The Scoop’s host Frank Chaparro and The Block’s policy reporter Stephanie Murray. “In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, ‘Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?’” In December, shortly after FTX’s ignominious collapse, Financial Times reported that Taylor’s team had been in talks with FTX over a proposed $100 million sponsorship deal, writing that the negotiations had simply fizzled out a few months before the company went bankrupt.