Rebekah Harkness, who also went by Betty, was the previous owner of Taylor Swift's Rhode Island home and serves as the inspiration for the third track on her latest album Nicholas Rice is a Senior ...

Purchased in 2013 for $17 million in cash, the house famously inspired her song “The Last Great American Dynasty”, which chronicles the life of the estate’s former owner, Rebekah Harkness.

The home also inspired her 2020 song “The Last Great American Dynasty,” which is about Rebekah Harkness, the American socialite and patron of the arts. Harkness inherited the estate after the ...

The historic property, once home to the eccentric socialite Rebekah Harkness (whose antics inspired Swift’s song The Last Great American Dynasty) maintains its status as Watch Hill’s most ...