{"id":106197,"date":"2024-02-27T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=106197"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:00:44","slug":"taylor-swifts-father-is-being-investigated-after-attacking-a-paparazzi-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/taylor-swifts-father-is-being-investigated-after-attacking-a-paparazzi-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s father is being investigated after attacking a paparazzi in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, police in Australia launched an investigation against <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s father, <strong>Scott<\/strong>, as he was accused of <b>attacking <\/b>a paparazzi named <strong>Ben McDonald<\/strong>, who quickly moved to file a lawsuit after the altercation, claiming to be the victim.<\/p>\n<p>These events seem to have been recorded by the camera that McDonald had with him, so he made sure to take it as <strong>evidence<\/strong> for his complaint; however, it is not possible to appreciate that Scott had any <strong>physical contact<\/strong> with the paparazzi since a member of Taylor&#8217;s security used an umbrella to block the camera.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1762259828313846112?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taylor Swift&#39;s Father Being Investigated for Allegedly Attacking Paparazzi   |  Click to read more \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DZECUs4lZG\">https:\/\/t.co\/DZECUs4lZG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1762259828313846112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everything seems to indicate that Ben McDonald wanted to take pictures of Taylor Swift, who apparently was also in the scene; however, he used an <strong>umbrella<\/strong> to cover her face, so it is not known exactly if it was the pop singer who was with Scott.<\/p>\n<p>In the video captured by the paparazzi, it can be seen that a man, who is assumed to be in charge of <strong>security<\/strong>, obstructed the view so that no photographs were taken, escorting the singer and her father to the car. Then a <strong>discussion<\/strong> is heard, and it seems that there was a small <strong>fight<\/strong>, but it is not very clear, so investigations by officials are still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, police in Australia launched an investigation against Taylor Swift&#8216;s father, Scott, as he was accused of attacking a paparazzi named Ben McDonald, who quickly moved to file a lawsuit after the altercation, claiming to be the victim. These events seem to have been recorded by the camera that McDonald had with him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":106237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[22],"class_list":{"0":"post-106197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment","9":"tag-taylor-swift"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}