“Blank Space” Castle used by Taylor Swift for Music Video files for bankruptcy

A historical mansion presented in Taylor SwiftS “Smooth“Music video has filed for bankruptcy.

According to a submission of July 31 in the US Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District in New York, Ohaka Castle in Huntington, newly applied for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The owner, Gary Melius, made the proposal to avoid a shielding sale of the property at the public auction.

The first filing notes that the property’s ownership – Kahn Property Owner LLC – owes just over $ 63.5 million to its creditors. At the same time, it has zero cash at hand and only $ 57.27 in its control account.

The Long Island property served as the memorable background in Swift’s music video “Blank Space”, where she and her male freer are seen falling in and out of love while riding horses through a formal garden and picnic in an Olmstead-designed garden. In an iconic shot Bashe Swift in the hood of the sports car in Herrgården.

Other scenes, including the stately dining room, were filmed on another nearby New York Mansion, Winfield Hall, also known as Woolworth Mansion.

The entire Ohka property is worth over $ 92 million in assets, which include Ohaka Castle Hotel & Estate and the 22 acres on which it is located. Meluis runs the property and Ohka acts as a separate unit.

“I bought the property in 1984 when it was an abandoned shell in a building. Since that time it has been a work with love for me and I have literally put my blood, sweat and tears in restoring and improving the property,” Melius said in the archiving.

He added: “Giving back to society is important to me and I have used the property for community use, Easter egg hunts, films, community meetings and events, charity golf trips and raise money for various charities.”

A company that applies for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy looks to reorganize their finances and liabilities while continuing to work. And that’s the hope for Melius.

“The wedding is all left,” he told Newspaper Day of the popular arena. “No one should worry about it.”

Melius’s lawyer did not immediately respond to people’s request for comment.

In addition to its appearance in “empty space,” The property has appeared in other films and television programs including Citizens canThe Gossip girlThe The project trackThe Sequence And more. The castle was even used as the location of Kevin and Danielle Jonas wedding 2009.

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From 8 August, room at the ohka -castle varies from $ 495 to $ 1,295 per night.

According to the resort WebsiteFinancial and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn built a 109,000 square meter, 127-room property as a summer home in the 1920s. After the original owner died in 1934, the goods changed his hands several times. For several years it was abandoned until Melius bought the property in 1984.

The property has since undergone a renovation of $ 40 million. Today, the building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of the historic hotels in America.