Taylor Swift's team issued a statement regarding an incident involving aggressive individuals pushing towards Taylor, threatening her staff. The incident involved paparazzi and Taylor's father, Scott Swift. The paparazzo, Ben McDonald, claims he was chasing Taylor on a wharf in Australia.
Scott Swift isn't the only notable name who has experienced an issue with Australian photographer Ben McDonald. https://t.co/WBPaJLHPjX
New footage of #TaylorSwift's dad, #ScottSwift, coming face to face with paparazzi in #Australia has surfaced, showing the incident from a different angle. https://t.co/H7r2bEl9Hc (🎥: BACKGRID) https://t.co/rDMGPy6oHR
"Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way towards Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel, and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water," Taylor Swift's representative said in an email. https://t.co/cg9pvDou5C
TAYLOR SWIFT'S FATHER INVESTIGATED FOR ATTACKING A PHOTOGRAPHER Photographer, Ben McDonald: “I was just out on the job chasing Taylor. “She got off a super-yacht at Neutral Bay and walked up the wharf with an umbrella over her head and a couple of security [guards] around her.… https://t.co/z22R6ZBQY2
🔗: https://t.co/oT7yUZtN7a An Australian paparazzo allegedly has bad blood with Taylor Swift's dad. Her rep addresses the situation at the link. (📷: Getty) https://t.co/ylM99Caam4
In 2005, Nicole Kidman was granted a temporary restraining order against photographer Ben McDonald and another pap after the discovery of an electronic listening device outside her house. (McDonald’s name and age coincides with police info in Taylor Swift’s incident.) https://t.co/GTgMoiFVav https://t.co/CScBQ18VS5
New statement from Taylor Swift team regarding the paparazzi-Scott Swift incident: Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way towards Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel, and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water.” https://t.co/MOLHDhNBB5
Lower north shore is dark at 0230, that wharf area is, too & would like to hear Mr Swift’s side of the story here. He seems like an admirably protective father. A ‘paparazzo’ has no right to endanger persons free movement from a wharf esp if in a swell & a floating pontoon. https://t.co/UBBlN9KqrZ