Taylor Swift threatens lawsuit against student who stalks her private jet trips

Taylor Swift strikes back. Monitoring the Grammy Award-winning singer's private jet flights on social media is causing her “emotional and physical distress,” her lawyers denounce in a letter sent to Jack Sweeney, the 21-year-old Floridian behind the initiative. in December and revealed by the Washington Post on Tuesday February 6. They threaten him with legal action if he does not stop his publications.

The young man tracks the movements of the jets belonging to the pop star - without ever specifying who is on board - using public data to denounce the CO2 emissions associated with these flights. Taylor Swift's lawyers see it as "harassment", ensuring that the singer is in a "constant state of fear for her personal safety", believing that this gives indications of where she is.

“All this may be a game to you, or a business from which you hope for fortune or fame, but it is a question of life and death for our client,” add the lawyers. They believe that there is “no legitimate interest” in sharing this information with the public. Jack Sweeney denounced an attempt at intimidation, while Taylor Swift is regularly singled out for the carbon footprint of her numerous private jet flights.

Before the singer, Jack Sweeney had already attracted the wrath of Elon Musk, whose private jet flights he also followed. The billionaire, boss of Tesla and Space X, had his Twitter account temporarily closed after his purchase of the social network. “Taylor Swift is right to be concerned,” he wrote in reaction to the Washington Post article, calling the student a “horrible human being.”