Wednesday, March 27, 2024 – Taylor Swift’s father will not face charges for allegedly assaulting a paparazzi photographer in Sydney last month, Australian police have confirmed.
In late February, photographer Ben McDonald claimed Scott
Swift had assaulted him after the singer disembarked from a yacht docked in
Sydney Harbor following her final show of the Australia leg of her Eras tour,
the multi-continent concert that has surged to become the highest-grossing tour
of all time.
Sharing his account with CNN, McDonald said one of Swift’s
security guards had forced an umbrella into his face and camera. Scott Swift
punched him after that, he said.
Swift’s entourage had been “aggressive and unprofessional,”
McDonald said.
In response to McDonald’s
claims, a spokesperson for Swift told CNN that threats had been made against a
member of her staff. “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 said.
No medical treatment was needed, police said at the time.
Officers “have conducted an investigation following a report
of an assault at Neutral Bay Wharf (in Sydney) at about 2:30 a.m. local time on
27 February,” a spokesperson for the New South Wales (NSW) Police Force told
CNN on Tuesday, March 26.
“No further police action”
would be taken, the spokesperson said of the case involving Swift’s 71-year-old
father Scott.
When asked if the complaint against Scott Swift had been
withdrawn or what the investigation found, the NSW police spokesperson said:
“We don’t provide full investigation details.”
“No offenses were detected
and the investigation was concluded with no further police action required,”
the spokesperson said.
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