Gamblers can bet on Swift to do just about anything
If you feel strongly that Taylor Swift will be wearing red lipstick, baring her navel, getting engaged and endorsing Joe Biden at the Super Bowl, you can bet on it. Online sports books have come up with a dizzying array of odds on nearly everything related to Swift, who will be flying to the game from her concert in Japan.
BetOnline, a gambling site based in Panama, has compiled 89 different Swift-related Super Bowl bets, a nod to her birth year and her album “1989.”
Americans are projected to bet $1.3 billion on Super Bowl LVIII — up nearly 20% from last year. Prop bets are typically limited to maximums of $100 to $250.
Among the wagers: Which Taylor song will Tony Romo mention first?
Will Travis Kelce propose to Taylor on the field?
Will Taylor be seen crying if Chiefs lose? How many times will Taylor be shown on camera? The over/under is 5.5 times.
“The Taylor Swift Effect is real,” BetOnline Sportsbook manager Adam Burns said. “It truly feels like the Swift storylines have become bigger than the game itself, which is just crazy considering this is the most watched event in the world every year.”
Clarence B. Jones, who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. draft the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, will be featured in an ad during the Super Bowl.
Jones, chairman of a Black-Jewish alliance called Spill the Honey, will appear with Patriots owner Robert Kraft to combat antisemitism.
Jones, 93, was recently honored by Mayor Adams at Gracie Mansion, by Leslie Odom Jr. and the cast of “Purlie Victorious,” and at a Knicks game.
Now he will be featured during the most-watched Super Bowl in history hoping to put a “Swift” end to antisemitism.
Harvey Weinstein, in prison for rape, is hoping he can have his conviction overturned and get a new trial.
“I talk to him almost every day,” his lawyer Arthur Aidala told me. “It’s obvious he didn’t get a fair trial.”
Aidala claims one of the 12 jurors, after denying she’d ever been sexually abused, wrote a book about how a male college professor sexually exploited her.
“She lied,” Aidala said. “There were three alternate jurors who could have filled her slot. That’s what jury selection is all about.”
Aidala will also argue that Judge James Burke never should have allowed four other women — besides the three women Weinstein was charged with attacking — to testify.
“In years past, the court only allowed prior convictions to be introduced as evidence,” Aidala said. “It’s unprecedented.”
Weinstein, whose trial helped spark the #MeToo movement, is serving 23 years in New York, and another 16 years in California.
“He was made into such a monster,” said Aidala, who expects a ruling from the New York Court of Appeals in two or three months.
“The judge made rulings that are just impossible. If Weinstein’s name was Harvey Jones, the case would have been thrown out.”
“Too Good to Fact Check,” is a dishy new book by Jeremy Murphy, the editor of Paramount’s defunct celebrity magazine Watch.
The writer — who worked with dozens of stars such as Neil Patrick Harris, Julianna Margulies and Christine Baranski — spills a series of outrageous anecdotes.
These include a surly Harrison Ford arriving at the wrong hotel for a photo shoot, a photographer insisting Lucy Liu walk a real-life alligator down Madison Ave. and Hugh Grant throwing a snit when Qantas lost his luggage.
Murphy saves the sharpest scalpel for himself, freely admitting to bar fights, restaurant bans, setting a London hotel room on fire, and drunkenly serenading Ted Koppel by singing the “Nightline” theme song.
The book, co-written with Sophia Paulmier, comes out July 23 from Post Hill Press.
Murphy told this column, “The book is a love letter to the celebs who were kind, an F-U to the ones that weren’t, and a 10-year prescription of therapy for me.”
“The actors who were nice, cool and fun to be around have nothing to worry about. The others? Hell hath no fury like a gay inconvenienced.”
Rudy Giuliani’s ex-wife Judith Nathan was with a younger blond mystery man at animal advocate Jean Shafiroff’s birthday party at Kim and Greg Dryer’s home in Palm Beach.
The two caused heads to swivel and tongues to wag as they wrapped their arms around each other.
Among those singing when the cake was rolled out were Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ralph Lauren’s brother Lenny Lauren, Ramona Singer and “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell, who was in town to perform her one-woman show.
After she blew out her candles, Shafiroff announced a donation to the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue Center in honor of the guests.
MTV’s “Jersey Shore” star Jenni “JWoww” Farley was seen filming the seventh season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” at the Hustler Club in Hell’s Kitchen last week.
The TV personality entered the risqué hot spot at 11 p.m. holding hands with her beau Zack “Clayton” Carpinello.
Farley wore a sleeveless orange bodysuit paired with black thigh-high boots that had patrons thinking she was one of the club’s entertainers.
After toasting the dancers with shots of tequila, Farley began to stuff dollar bills into the dancers’ G-strings and was seen “making it rain” by throwing hundreds of dollars into the air.
Among the guests were “90 Day Fiancé’s” Stephanie Matto, who bid $1,000 to pick Farley’s brain about a potential joint business venture.
Out & About: Michael B. Jordan showing off his mini bowling skills at Slate in Chelsea … DJs Tiesto and Alesso performed at Brooklyn Hangar for a sold-out crowd including influencer Sofie Mahlkvist … One of Denise Richards and Prince Albert of Monaco’s favorite pop artists Anthony Alberti is showing a portrait of Keith Haring at ELiTY art gallery at L’Apartment at 57th and Fifth … Joey and Melissa Gorga, of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” at pastaRAMEN in Montclair … Divorce attorney Ken Jewell meeting with a top socialite about divorcing her CEO husband at La Goulue … Former Miss America Suzette Charles modeled for designer Karina Tatarski, who debuted her fashion line, Caryny, at Unieke Mode NYFW/The Show on West 13th Street.