Luigi Mangione Was Listening to Taylor Swift and Charli XCX in Jail — Until “King” Got Involved

Alleged murderer Luigi Mangione says he had been listening to Taylor Swift and Charli XCX behind bars—until a fellow inmate scolded him for it.

“Last week, I downloaded a bunch of Taylor Swift and Charli XCX onto my tablet. I’ve never really listened to either of them, but some phony list of my favorite music circulated on social media, [REDACTED],” Mangione wrote in a letter from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. “Rather than being a buzzkill and set the record straight, I figured I’d see what all the hype was about.”

“So I’m walking laps on the top tier of my unit listening to ‘Cardigan’ by Taylor Swift when one of the other inmates, ‘King,’ calls me over to see what I’m listening to. He scolds me for a while, then replaces all my music. Now I listen to ‘Lil Durk.'”

Luigi Mangione allegedly downloaded “a bunch” of Charli xcx songs onto his tablet in jail:

“Last week, I downloaded a bunch of Taylor Swift and Charli XCX onto my tablet. I've never really listened to either of them… I figured l’d see what all the hype was about. So I'm walking… pic.twitter.com/0tUkNBbX4l

— xcx source (@xcxsource) October 28, 2025