Taylor Swift Didn't Actually Sign The Guitar That A Texas Man Paid $4,000 To Smash, Source Says

The guitar supposedly signed by Taylor Swift that was sold for $4,000 to a Texas man who immediately smashed it with a hammer wasn’t authentic, a source close to Swift’s merch company told HuffPost on Tuesday.

The source said an authentic Swift-signed guitar would have come with a certificate of authenticity, which Swift’s team doesn’t believe the auctioned guitar has. In any case, they said, Swift didn’t sign it.

A man in Waxahachie, Texas, went viral Monday after a video was posted on social media with a caption that said the man paid $4,000 for a guitar signed by Swift. The video shows him immediately smashing it with a hammer.

The event happened at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner, which is a “non-profit organization supporting agricultural education for local youth,” according to its website. The Ellis County Wild Game Dinner did not immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment but appeared to tell TMZ it had a certificate of authenticity for the item.

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