Would-be Taylor Swift concert attacker loses privacy case against Disney
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- ✓An Austrian man convicted of planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in 2024 lost a privacy lawsuit against Disney on Wednesday.
- ✓He sued over his parents' home appearing in a docu-series.
- ✓The judge said he does not live there, so the case got rejected by the court.
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VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) - An Austrian man convicted of planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 lost a privacy lawsuit against Disney on Wednesday over the fact his parents' home was shown in the docu-series "Taylor Swift: The End of an Era".
The man, identified as Beran A, was sentenced in May to 15 years in prison. He has been in custody since his arrest in August 2024.
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An episode of the series, which first aired in December 2025, showed his parents' home in a town an hour's drive from Vienna for a matter of seconds but did not name him.
"He doesn't live there. He hasn't lived there for two years," Judge Nicole Baczak ruled, adding that there was no prospect of him living there again in the near future.
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