Taylor Swift is caught gossiping with Selena Gomez over dinner after finally gaining control of her music empire
Taylor Swift reunited with a veteran member of her celeb gal pal squad, Selena Gomez, for a ladies night out in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday night.
The billionaire pop stars nicknamed 'Taylena' - aged 35 and 32 - enjoyed upscale American fare at Monkey Bar located inside The Hotel Elysee, and the website revealed it was closed for a 'private event' at 6:30pm.
The dimly lit, 1936-established restaurant features murals by caricaturist Charlie Vella, monkey-shaped lamps, and a 20-page wine list.
In a snap published by gossip blog DeuxMoi, Taylor's mouth could be seen hanging open in shock while catching up on gossip from Selena.
Swift looked leggy in a black mini-dress with rhinestone trim and chrome platform heels while Gomez wore a plunging brown halter top beneath a beige pantsuit and copper pumps.
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In the Instagram comments, user @marisarissaaa pondered: 'I wonder what Selena told her,' which was liked by 1,239 others.
'Selena is always telling Taylor the surprising [tea],' user @ttaylorweiss commented. 'I love them.'
User @xiorodriguezreyes wrote: 'Honestly it's really sweet that Selena and Taylor have remained friends for so long. Far from just "industry" friends.'
'The world is healing,' user @reagan.baylee agreed.
Indeed, the 14-time Grammy winner and the two-time Grammy nominee originally met in 2008 when they were each dating members of the boyband, Jonas Brothers.
Other fans thought Taylor and Selena were gossiping about Blake Lively, who allegedly blackmailed Swift in February by threatening to release a decade of private text messages if she didn't issue a statement of support amid her Justin Baldoni legal war.
'Dying to know what was said about Blake,' user @nikkicole111 commented.
User @unclejeffk wrote - 'Taylor: "Oh! And do you know what ELSE Blake said?" Selena: "Girl, spill."'
But more likely, Gomez was helping the Fortnight songstress celebrate regaining the masters to her first six studio albums - Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation.
Last Friday, the Emilia Pérez actress - who boasts 419M Instagram followers - publicly congratulated Taylor via Instastory: 'Yes you did that Tay! So proud!'
User @xiorodriguezreyes wrote: 'Honestly it's really sweet that Selena and Taylor have remained friends for so long. Far from just "industry" friends'
Billboard reported that Swift spent around $360M to buy back her music catalog from Shamrock Capital after 'bully' Scooter Braun sold her masters to the private equity firm in 2020 (a year after buying them from Big Machine).
'I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,' the Pennsylvania-born belter wrote on her website.
'But that's all in the past now. I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found that this is really happening. I really get to say those words. All of the music I've ever made … now belongs… to me.'
Meanwhile, Taylor's NFL beau Travis Kelce was attending the Big Slick Celebrity Weekend in Kansas City, KS where he helped raise a record $4.530M for Children's Mercy Hospital.
Swift previously dated Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harry Styles, Conor Kennedy, Matthew Healy, Calvin Harris, Tom Hiddleston, and Joe Alwyn.
Selena is also a taken woman as she got engaged to 11-time Grammy nominee Benny Blanco on December 10 after 18 months of dating.
Gomez originally met the 37-year-old music producer during a 2008 business meeting when she was only 16, and he went on to work on her second studio album Revival in 2015.
Gomez has been hard at work producing and reprising her role as artist Mabel Mora in the fifth season of Hulu hit series, Only Murders in the Building (pictured May 7 with Steve Martin and Martin Short)
The Call Me When You Break Up singer - who refuses to convert to Benny's Jewish faith - previously dated Drew Taggart, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber.
Selena has been hard at work producing and reprising her role as artist Mabel Mora in the fifth season of Hulu hit series, Only Murders in the Building.
Gomez, creator-star Steve Martin, and Martin Short are said to earn well over $600K/episode to produce and star in the critically-acclaimed who-done-it.
Renée Zellweger, Téa Leoni, Keegan-Michael Key, Beanie Feldstein, and Jermaine Fowler have also joined the SAG Award-winning ensemble for season five.
The Rare Beauty founder is also prepping to portray 11-time Grammy winner Linda Ronstadt in David O. Russell's untitled biopic produced by her former manager John Boylan.
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