Swift’s lawyers accused Jack Sweeney of “stalking and harassing behavior” for tracking her flights and posting updates on social media.
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Jack Sweeney, the Florida college student known for using public information to track the flights of private planes owned by billionaires, celebrities and politicians, says Taylor Swift’s lawyers sent him letters threatening legal action in December over his accounts that tracked her plane’s flights.Key Facts
The first reported on the letters Tuesday and in an email to Forbes, Sweeney confirmed the Post’s reporting but declined to offer copies of the letters.
The Post, which did see the letters, reported that Katie Wright Morrone, an attorney at law firm Venable representing Swift, first sent a letter to Sweeney in December, equating his flight tracking with “stalking and harassing behavior” and warning that the superstar would “have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies” if he did not stop—Forbes has contacted Morrone for comment.
Morrone reportedly wrote that Swift has faced issues involving stalkers and described the situation as “a life-or-death matter,” claiming there’s “no legitimate interest in or public need for this information, other than to stalk, harass, and exert dominion and control.”
Around the same time, Facebook and Instagram disabled Sweeney’s Swift-related accounts, he told the Post, and he received a second letter claiming “harassing conduct” after he began posting updates to Celeb Jets, a Facebook and Instagram account that he uses to track multiple celebrity-affiliated planes.
