Taylor Swift’s father allegedly assaulted an Australian paparazzi early Tuesday morning, according to new reports.
Though Scott Swift has not been formally identified, local police said that a 71-year-old man slugged a 51-year-old man at Neutral Bay Wharf at 2:30 a.m.
“Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way toward Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water,” a spokesperson for Swift said in a statement.
The paparazzo, Ben McDonald of Matrix Media Group, told the Sunday Morning Herald that he was left with a “sore left chop,” though cops said he did not need any medical treatment.
“She got off a super-yacht at Neutral Bay and walked up the wharf with an umbrella over her head and a couple of security [guards] around her,” McDonald said. “Security sort of pushed us around with the umbrellas. Then her dad decided to…
