They should have known she was trouble.
Taylor Swift beat a lawsuit filed against her by a Manhattan real estate broker who said the pop star stiffed her out of a $1.08 million commission for the purchase of her Tribeca townhouse.
The “Look What You Made Me Do” singer argued that she never signed a contract.
A Douglas Elliman broker showed a rep from Swift’s company Firefly Entertainment 153 Franklin St. in February 2017, and gave the rep blueprints to the pad that once hosted former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The Frenchman was renting the apartment while being investigated over charges that he raped a Midtown hotel maid. He was ultimately cleared and he and his wife flew home to France.
Eight months later, the “Shake it Off” singer purchased the property for $18 million but excluded the Elliman broker from the transaction.
The Grammy Award-winner also owns three apartments at 155 Franklin St., which abuts the townhouse. But the stand-alone home was likely attractive because it had what the apartment building lacked — a paparazzi-proof garage.
The brokerage firm sued, demanding the seven-figure commission, but a judge tossed the suit on Thursday, saying Elliman never had “any formal agreement” with Swift.
“Douglas Elliman’s claims fail as a matter of law for want of an enforceable contract,” Manhattan federal court judge Jesse Furman wrote in the ruling.
Judge Furman said an “informal e-mail” between the parties about viewing the townhouse was insufficient to secure a commission.
“And the e-mail is far from the sort of ‘formal writing’ one would expect in connection with an $18 million transaction,” Furman added.
“The e-mail lacks most, if not all, of the material terms of a real estate brokerage agreement, including the scope and duration of the relationship and the fee,” he wrote.
Reps for Swift did not return messages for comment. A lawyer for the brokerage company declined to comment.