Taylor Swift’s authorized staff has despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney over his @taylorswiftjets Instagram threads, warning the coed is stalking and harassing the pop star by monitoring her personal jet journey.
“This conduct poses an imminent menace to the protection and wellbeing of our shopper and should cease,” acknowledged the letter from Washington-based regulation agency Venable posted to Reddit and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
Sweeney’s Instagram posts purpose to measure and file the carbon footprints on-line of celebrities.
However Swift’s authorized staff famous Swift has lengthy needed to fend off stalkers “and different people who want her hurt.” “Whereas this can be a sport to you, or an avenue that you just hope will earn you wealth or fame, it’s a life-or-death matter for our shopper,” Katie Wright Morrone added within the letter.
The authorized staff added that Sweeney’s reside updates of the place Swift’s personal jets have been touring represented a hazard to the pop star. “This actuality has compelled our shopper to reside her life in a continuing state of worry for her private security. That worry is and has been considerably heightened attributable to your reckless actions,” the letter argued.
In an announcement to THR, a rep for Swift mentioned they will’t touch upon an ongoing police investigation however “can verify the timing of stalkers suggests a connection. His posts let you know precisely when and the place she can be.”
Additionally including that “earlier than the tour kicked off, Taylor bought greater than double the carbon credit wanted to offset all of her journey, which incorporates the tour.”
The whole cease-and-desist letter from Swift’s authorized staff to Sweeney follows:
Please be suggested that Venable LLP represents Ms. Taylor Swift (“Consumer”). We perceive that you’re the person working the Instagram account @taylorswiftjets, and the Threads account by the identical identify (the “Offending Accounts”). For the previous 12 months, by these Offending Accounts, you might have engaged in stalking and harassing habits, together with persistently publishing real-time and exact details about our Consumer’s location and future whereabouts to the general public on social media. This conduct poses an imminent menace to the protection and wellbeing of our Consumer and should cease. We request that you just instantly stop and desist from any additional publication of this data, take away all currently-posted content material on the Offending Accounts, and completely terminate the operation of the Offending Accounts (and any related accounts involving our Consumer).
You’re infamous for disregarding the private security of others in alternate for public consideration and/or requests for monetary achieve. We’re conscious of your public disputes with different high-profile people and your techniques in these interactions, together with providing to cease your dangerous habits solely in alternate for gadgets of worth.1 Whereas this can be a sport to you, or an avenue that you just hope will earn you wealth or fame, it’s a life-or-death matter for our Consumer. Ms. Swift has handled stalkers and different people who want her hurt since she was a teen. Certainly, there are a lot of public circumstances of people who’ve come to Ms. Swift’s residences, together with these armed with weapons and ammunition, and tried to hurt her. This actuality has compelled our Consumer to reside her life in a continuing state of worry for her private security. That worry is and has been considerably heightened attributable to your reckless actions. As a result of the Offending Accounts share “reside” updates on her vacation spot and the precise time our Consumer will arrive at a given location, you primarily present people intent on bodily harming her, or with nefarious or violent intentions, a roadmap to hold out their plans.
In fact, you might have precise data of all of this. Many social media customers have commented on the Offending Accounts, expressing shock and concern on the hazard you might have created. Beneath is only a small sampling of the clear warnings that customers have made in feedback on the Instagram Offending Account:
- “So many individuals obsessive about Taylor’s personal life, it’s scary and pathetic.” (December 17, 2023);
- “You individuals are unhinged stalkers.” (December 17, 2023);
- “I really feel like ethically it is best to delay these posts by a day so its not so creepy.” (October 30, 2023);
- “No less than this stalker account is lastly good for one thing.” (October 22, 2023);
- “That is creepy bro. Youre actually stalking her.” (September 22, 2023);
- The account is “nonetheless very very creepy. particularly for taylor, who has been stalked earlier than” (September 5, 2023);
- “sure yall she has literal stalkers who wish to harm her….which is why this web page is so problematic and harmful” (July 17, 2023);
- “I’m gonna encourage everyone to report this account. That is stalker habits and it’s so [expletive] up.” (July 17, 2023); and
- “this account is so bizarre and invasive” (July 12, 2023).
But, your illegal habits continues.
Your willful and repeated harassment of our Consumer is in violation of a number of state legal guidelines. As is your intentional, offensive, and outrageous conduct and constant violations of our Consumer’s privateness. To be clear, there isn’t any justification so that you can publicly determine our Consumer’s location. Certainly, there isn’t any professional curiosity in or public want for this data, apart from to stalk, harass, and exert dominion and management. Your posts on the Offending Accounts have prompted and can proceed to trigger direct and irreparable hurt, in addition to emotional and bodily misery to our Consumer, her household, and people near her. Your wrongful and harmful actions should cease.
Accordingly, we demand that you just stop and desist from any additional use or operation of the Offending Accounts (and any related accounts involving our Consumer), take away all content material associated to our Consumer from the Offending Accounts, and instantly cease offering details about our Consumer’s location to the general public. In case you fail to stick to those calls for instantly, and by no later than shut of enterprise on December 26, 2023, or when you proceed to publish data that threatens our Consumer’s security, she could have no selection however to pursue any and all authorized cures out there to her.2 We is not going to hesitate to escalate this matter as wanted.
Our Consumer reserves all rights.