Taylor Swift’s team speak out after dad accused of punching photographer
Taylor Swift’s team has released a statement after a paparazzi photographer accused her father Scott Swift of punching him in the face.
Australian pap Ben McDonald, 51, claims Swift’s father Scott, 71 – who previously made headlines for fighting off a burglar at the family’s penthouse – punched him after the star’s final Eras Tour show in Sydney at around 2.30am local time.
He claimed he had been among media trying to photograph Swift as she walked towards a waiting car with several security guards, and at one stage one man ‘started shoving his umbrella into me and my camera’.
‘Someone else came running at me and punched me in the left of my face,’ he claimed according to Sky News. McDonald said he initially thought it was a security guard ‘but as it turned out it was her father.’