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Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s team has responded to photographer Ben McDonald<\/strong>\u2018s claim that her father, Scott Swift<\/strong>, 71, assaulted him during an outing after the leg of her Australian Eras Tour<\/em><\/a> ended. The singer and her dad<\/a> were walking at a ferry wharf in the suburb of Neutral Bay around 2.30am on Tuesday, when Ben approached them and the alleged incident took place. They had traveled from Homebush on a luxury superyacht called Quantum right before.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo individuals were aggressively pushing their way towards Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel, and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water,\u201d a spokeswoman for Taylor told Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> about the reason for the alleged incident.<\/p>\n

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Ben, 51, who is the chief executive of Matrix Media Group, slammed Taylor\u2019s team\u2019s statement as \u201cutter rubbish\u201d and said the only female at the scene was Taylor. \u201cThis is the sort of bulls*** I might expect,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cWhich female was that? The only one there was Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben also said the altercation was caught on camera and it allegedly didn\u2019t show photographers acting aggressively. An investigation into the alleged incident has been started by the North Shore Police Command.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s team\u2019s statement about the incident comes shortly after Ben accused Scott of \u201ccharging\u201d at him once he was off the superyacht with Taylor. He said he originally thought it was a security guard and was shocked when he realized it was allegedly Taylor\u2019s dad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn 23 years of taking pictures, I have never seen anything like it,\u201d he said. \u201cShe got off the boat, she walked towards security guards who were shoving umbrellas in our faces.\u201d The footage from the alleged incident shows Taylor and Scott walking with a few others as they shield the singer\u2019s face with an umbrella. Another umbrella appeared to be blocking the photographer right before there was movement and the camera jolted. Ben immediately went to the Rocks police station and reported the incident.<\/p>\n

Taylor just finished the Australian leg<\/a> of her Eras Tour<\/em>, which included multiple shows in Melbourne and Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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