Taylor Swift’s Father Being Investigated for Allegedly Attacking Paparazzi

Taylor Swift‘s father, Scott, has been accused of attacking a paparazzo in Australia — and now cops are trying into it … and a few of this seems to have been caught on digicam.

New South Wales Police Media Unit tells TMZ … cops there are investigating an alleged assault that was reported to them on Sydney’s North Shore very early Tuesday morning native time — this after a photographer named Ben McDonald filed a criticism claiming simply that.

We’re instructed police there have been knowledgeable {that a} 71-year-old man — believed to Scott — allegedly acquired right into a bodily confrontation with a 51-year-old ma (McDonald) at Impartial Bay Wharf at about 2 AM Tuesday as he was exiting the realm.

NSWPMU tells us the alleged sufferer reported this, and now … it is on the radar as they probe what precisely occurred, and whether or not a criminal offense was dedicated. The cops right here notice … the alleged sufferer didn’t require medical remedy.

Now, by way of the alleged proof right here … McDonald really appears to have captured not less than a chunk of this altercation — though, it’s kind of unclear what precisely you’ll be able to see right here.

You’ll be able to see and listen to Ben manning the digicam as Scott and a bunch of safety guards clear the trail for him as he makes his approach from the dock space, and as Scott will get nearer, one of many guards with an umbrella — who appears to be making an attempt to obscure the view of McDonald — will get awfully shut … and you may hear what seems like a scuffle ensue.

From the appears to be like of it, Scott would not seem like instantly concerned — however once more, it is arduous to inform for certain. In any case, McDonald has gone working to cops to accuse him of assault.

McDonald instructed the Every day Mail that Taylor was with Scott right here — and that they had been arriving from Homebush on a yacht when all this went down. Pictures of their arrival had been captured by paps on the bottom — together with McDonald — and you may really see Taylor strolling by way of with an umbrella over her complete torso as Scott guides her by way of the pap crush.