The Aussie cops are on the case, digging into claims that Swift Senior threw a punch that sent photo-journalist Ben McDonald reeling on a Sydney dock.
McDonald, 51, claims the 71-year-old Swift patriarch landed a hit on him that would’ve made a boxer proud. Despite the face-off, he walked away without needing a doctor. The brouhaha erupted in the dead of night, just as Swift and his superstar daughter were stepping off a yacht.
The Swift camp’s lips are sealed tight on the fracas but were quick to call out a duo of daredevil aggressors for coming at them tooth and nail.
Caught on camera in a cloak-and-dagger scene, Taylor, hidden under an umbrella like a true diva, strides through Neutral Bay Wharf, flanked by her dad and bodyguards at 2:30 AM. The night air was thick with the flash of cameras and the clash of angry voices, hurling accusations of umbrella jousting.
McDonald spilled the tea to the BBC, painting a picture of Scott Swift turning into a raging bull, charging and landing a haymaker after Taylor had made her getaway. “In my 23 years, I’ve never taken a hit like this,” he exclaimed, swearing he did nothing to start the melee.
Taylor’s team fired back, painting the picture of a near-mob scene, with the paparazzi lunging for Taylor, tugging at her protectors, and even threatening to chuck a female staffer into the drink!
Fresh off the high of her blockbuster Eras tour’s Aussie finale, this isn’t the encore Taylor or her dad would have wanted. Now, with the police on the trail, the Swifts might be singing a different tune as they navigate this latest tempest.
