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<\/div>\nThe alleged victim, Ben McDonald, told AFP the man was Swift’s dad, Scott Swift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Australian police said they were investigating a 71-year-old man for the alleged assault of a photographer in Sydney in the early hours of Tuesday. The accuser identified the man as Taylor Swift’s father.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Police have been told a 71-year-old man allegedly assaulted a 51-year-old man at Neutral Bay Wharf about 2:30 am (1530 GMT Monday), before leaving the location,” police spokeswoman Alicia McCumstie told AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The younger man reported the incident and inquiries are now under way by officers attached to North Shore Police Area Command.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alleged victim, Ben McDonald, told AFP the man was Swift’s dad, Scott Swift.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McDonald said he had been photographing the US pop icon on a “super yacht” in Sydney Harbour after the last of her four gigs in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McDonald alleges Swift’s security put an umbrella in his face to prevent him from taking photographs of Taylor Swift, who was walking down the jetty to a waiting vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Swift departed, McDonald claimed a man confronted him and “he punched me in the chops”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know who he was, but I looked at photos and saw him holding hands with Taylor, and it was her dad.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was a shock. That’s never happened to me in 26 years,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Australian police do not usually publicly identify people accused or alleging crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift is currently in the midst of her worldwide blockbuster Eras Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She heads to Singapore this week for the next leg of what is expected to be the highest-grossing musical tour of all time at over $1 billion, according to Pollstar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Taylor Swift has accused two unnamed individuals of pushing, grabbing and threatening behaviour at the time a photographer was allegedly assaulted by the star’s father in Sydney early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“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,” the spokesperson told AFP.<\/p>\n
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