Did Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift announce on a livestream that they are spending $250 million to find the truth in the Virginia Giuffre case? No, that's not true: Neither the celebrity couple nor news organizations said anything about it. The claim was promoted by overseas-based pages that publish made-up stories to drive traffic-based ad revenue.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook on February 15, 2026. It opened:
SHOCKING NEWS IN THE PAST 24 HOURS: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced they are spending 250 million dollars to expose the case of the 'woman whose truth was buried by power' -- the announcement, broadcast live right at her private residence, created a global earthquake, drawing more than 2.9 billion views in just a few hours!
No longer vague speculation or cryptic social media posts, this time the two appeared in front of a massive LED screen system, unveiling a series of videos, documents, and testimonies never before made public. The footage, said to capture internal exchanges, tense audio recordings, and controversial legal details, was streamed live, leaving the global audience in stunned silence.
Notably, this is the first time Taylor and Travis have directly financed a large-scale independent investigation, backed by a team of leading lawyers, forensic experts, and investigative journalists. The image of the two holding hands under the lights, affirming that 'the truth must be restored to its rightful place,' spread at lightning speed. Hollywood was reportedly 'shaken' as several major names were unexpectedly mentioned in the videos shown -- opening a dramatic and unpredictable new chapter.
This is what the picture attached to the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/61581861062551)
While the entry did not explicitly name the "woman whose truth was buried by power", the composite image from the entry featured late Virginia Giuffre (archived here), a woman who went forward to speak publicly against Jeffrey Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and then-Prince Andrew (archived here).
No reports
Had that livestream been real, it would have been covered by the media not only because of the high-profile names but also because of the supposedly unprecedented number of views, 2.9 billion. In reality, however, according to Guinness World Records, even the most live-streamed event on YouTube -- Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding -- generated 72 million views (archived here), not billions.
The Google News (archived here) index of thousands of web sites showed no credible reports corroborating the existence of the supposed livestream. Contrary to the claim implying that it discussed a recent event in February 2026, football player Travis Kelce and singer Taylor Swift did not appear on a live broadcast together since August 2025 (archived here). At the time, they discussed Swift's new album and the couple's personal life.
A search (archived here) across Swift's account on Instagram (archived here) did not yield any posts about Giuffre. Kelce's account on the same social media platform (archived here) did not discuss that topic, either.
Source of the claim
The page that published the claim stated (archived here) that it was based in the U.S. However, its contact section immediately revealed a problem: It's highly unlikely that the same address can be simultaneously located in both Pennsylvania and New York:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at facebook.com/p/The-News-247-61581861062551/)
According to the Transparency tab, the page was managed from Vietnam:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at facebook.com/people/The-News-247)
The claim was also promoted (archived here) by another website (archived here) that purported to function as a news outlet but didn't have the "About" page and lacked minimal editorial transparency about the team behind it. According to the Whois domain lookup tool, that site had a Brazilian IP address.
The sensational character of the claim and the way it spread fit the pattern of what Lead Stories identified as "Vietspam" -- content farms that are based overseas, often in Vietnam, and produce English-language misinformation to generate revenue through made-for-advertising pages (archived here).
Lead Stories wrote dozens of fact checks about it and published a primer on how to identify these kinds of fake posts exported from Vietnam. It's titled "Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam'".
