Dionne Warwick Tells Jake Gyllenhaal to Return Taylor Swift's Scarf: 'It Does Not Belong to You'

Mar. 16, 2025

Dionne Warwickis chiming in!

The 80-year-old music icon seemed to chideJake GyllenhaalonTwitterMonday for allegedly hanging on to theinfamous scarfthat belongs to his ex-girlfriendTaylor Swift.

“If that young man has Taylor’s scarf he should return it,” Warwick wrote. “It does not belong to you. Box it up and I will pay the cost of postage, Jake.”

“And I, left my scarf there at your sister’s house/And you’ve still got it in your drawer even now,” Swift sings on the track, which was initially released in 2012.

Getty (3)

Dionne Warwick, Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift

Instar

Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal take a stroll through Brooklyn, New York on Thanksgiving Day.

Maggie even addressed the cryptic lyric during a 2017 appearance onWatch What Happens Live, and said she wasn’t sure what it meant.

“I never understood why everybody asked me about this scarf. What is this?” she asked after hostAndy Cohenbroached the topic.

For more onTaylor Swiftand other top stories, listen below toour daily podcast on PEOPLE Every Day.

“I am in the dark about the scarf. It’s totally possible. I don’t know. I have been asked this before,” she added.

“It’s been a ball,” she of the platform in June. “I think the way I approached it, always with laughter and never bashing anyone - you don’t have to say to anyone what you don’t want said back to you. Let’s put a little laughter into it. In my small way, I think I’ve started a trend to become more mellow, so we can all calm down and enjoy it.”

source: people.com