The guitar supposedly signed by Taylor Swift that was sold for $4,000 to a Texas man who immediately smashed it with a hammer wasn’t authentic, a source close to Swift’s merch company told HuffPost on Tuesday.

There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as "a joke" — after paying thousands for it at auction, the man said Tuesday.Gary Estes,

A video of a man destroying a 'Taylor Swift' guitar as a Texas charity event has gone viral — but the guitar was not autographed by Swift.