Reading Time: 3 minutesTaylor Swift just donated $100,000 to a two-year old cancer patient. Yes, the singer really is this awesome.
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Taylor Swift is simply amazing.

The “Life of a Showgirl” singer made a $100,000 donation to a two-year-old fan named Lilah Smoot amid her battle with stage 4 brain cancer, multiple outlets reported late this week.

This sort of gesture coming from the artist is hardly even surprising at this point.

Along with the monetary gift, Swift left an uplifting message for the toddler, who referred to the 35-year-old as her “friend” in a TikTok video shared by her mom Katelynn Smoot October 8.

“Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah!” the Grammy winner wrote on a GoFundMe page run by the young Swiftie’s family. “Love, Taylor.”

The public has since learned that Lilah’s cancer journey started when she was rushed to hospital after suffering a seizure at a mere 18 months old.

Upon arrival, physicians discovered a mass on her brain … which they determined to be a stage 4 tumor. Simply awful.

Swift, who has a documentary coming out later this year, has grown famous for these kinds of presents; she gave a hefty sum of money to all the crew involved with her Eras Tour, for example.

In March 2021, Swift and her mom Andrea Swift jointly donated $50,000 to help mom-of-five Vickie Quarles after her husband Theodis Ray Quarles passed away from COVID-19.

When it comes to Lilah, the child’s tumor was surgically removed, yet she was eventually diagnosed with a “very rare, aggressive form of brain cancer,” one with only 58 documented cases in the United States last year, according to this same GoFundMe page.

In the wake of Taylor’s donation, Katelynn shared a message of gratitude on TikTok.

“I cannot say thank you enough,” she wrote in a post on this platform over the weekend, adding:

“I’m truly in shock. This means we don’t have to worry about anything other than Lilah. Truly such a blessing. Thank you @Taylor Swift.”

This is the incredible thing about Taylor Swift, right?

She can sing a song about Travis Kelce’s penis one second, and then turn around and do something life-changing for a fan the next second.

Katelynn, for her part, noted on Saturday that the $1000,000 gift lifted the financial burden from her family as they navigated Lilah’s treatment.

“We now can just focus on being here with our girl,” she wrote in on-screen text on the footage. “Truly we are so incredibly grateful.”

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTaylor Frankie Paul will not face any additional criminal charges after pleading guilty to an assault that took place in 2023.
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In the weeks since video of Taylor Frankie Paul assaulting Dakota Mortensen was made public, Paul has maintained that footage of the altercation did not tell the whole story.

Now, it appears she’s been somewhat vindicated.

In photos obtained by TMZ, Taylor and Dakota are both sporting facial injuries that were allegedly caused by one another.

That doesn’t change the fact that Taylor is on camera hurling metal barstools at Dakota. But she may have been telling the truth when she claimed she was a victim as well as an aggressor.

Whatever the case, there’s more good news for Paul, as we now know that she will not face any new criminal charges in connection with further claims made by Mortensen.

According to People, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office announced on April 14 that it will not pursue charges stemming from additional alleged incidents involving Paul and Mortensen.

The office said some of the allegations fell outside the statute of limitations, while others either did not rise to the level of criminal offenses or lacked sufficient evidence and specificity to move forward.

As the DA’s office explained in letters obtained by People, some incidents lacked ‘specificity as to when and what actually occurred or corroboration.”

The office also noted that the case was reviewed by “multiple attorneys” due to Paul’s public profile.

Following the news, Paul took to social media with an emotional statement.

“Cried when I got the call. THANK YOU to those that have stood with me,” she wrote (per People).

Clearly, Taylor is grateful to those who supported her through the legal and personal turmoil of the past several weeks.

The reality star’s response reflected a sense of relief after weeks of uncertainty surrounding the investigation.

This latest decision applies only to the new allegations investigated in 2026.

As People notes, this does not change the 2023 case, in which Paul previously pleaded guilty in abeyance to aggravated assault after a separate incident involving Mortensen.

That earlier case remains a significant part of the public conversation surrounding Paul, particularly after leaked footage of the incident led ABC to cancel Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette.

For now, however, prosecutors have made clear that no new charges will be filed in connection with the most recent allegations.

And for Paul, that development appears to have brought at least some measure of relief amid what has been a deeply public and painful chapter.

“It’s sad to see the latest installment of his never-ending, desperate, attention-seeking, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without any regard for the consequences for their child,” a rep for the reality star said in a statement last month.

“Releasing an old and selectively edited video on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior.”

Hopefully, now Taylor and Dakota can both move on from this messy incident.

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