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DENVER (AP) — Taylor Swift's mother and confidante took the witness stand Wednesday, saying she and her daughter's managers had told the bosses of a disc jockey accused of groping the singer-songwriter that they hoped he would be fired but didn't ask them to do so.

Andrea Swift testified during a civil trial in federal court in Denver that she had no doubt about what happened during a pre-concert photo op based on a conversation with her daughter.

"She said, 'Mom, a guy just grabbed my ass.' ... She was really shaken. She was humiliated," Andrea Swift, a co-defendant in the lawsuit filed by Da...