Australian photographer sues Taylor Swift’s father for physical violence | Abroad

New South Wales police said in a statement they were investigating “an alleged assault on Sydney’s north shore”. Around 2:30 a.m., a 71-year-old man allegedly attacked a 51-year-old man at Neutral Bay Wharf, police said. ABC knows how to report that Taylor Swift’s father allegedly punched paparazzo photographer Ben McDonald in the face. McDonald then filed a complaint with the police, although he said he was not seriously injured.

Taylor Swift celebrated the end of her successful Australian concert series with a cruise in Sydney Harbor on Monday evening. In the early hours of Tuesday, she disembarked at Neutral Bay Wharf, where McDonald was waiting to take photos of the singer and her entourage. According to the photographer, the singer’s bodyguards pushed umbrellas into his camera and face, and one of them hit him in the face, while Taylor Swift was already in a car at the time.

At the time of the attack, McDonald believed it was a “poorly trained, unprofessional local security officer”, but later found out that the man who hit him was the famous singer’s father. “In my 23 years of doing this job, I have never been attacked, let alone punched in the face by a father,” McDonald told reporters. ABC.

A spokeswoman for Taylor Swift said in a response Daily Mail Australia that the photographers “behaved aggressively” toward Swift and her entourage when the incident occurred. “Two people aggressively tried to get close to Taylor, grabbing her security staff and threatening to throw a female employee into the water.”

According to Australian media, Swift left on Tuesday by private jet for Singapore, where she will continue her world tour.