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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Taylor Swift was lauded for dodging an FTX sponsorship. Michael Lewis’s latest book says that isn’t the full story

Taylor Swift (Credit: Gotham—GC Images)

New details have emerged about a potential multimillion-dollar sponsorship between Taylor Swift and FTX that broke down last year after months of negotiations, according to the latest book by The Big Short author Michael Lewis.

In the book, Lewis confirmed previous reporting by the New York Times that claimed Swift’s team had signed a deal with FTX after earlier reports credited her with dodging a landmine. The deal would’ve reportedly paid Swift between $25 million and $30 million annually, Lewis wrote in Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, which debuted on Tuesday. The deal, according to Lewis, didn’t go through only because Bankman-Fried dragged his feet.

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