Scooter Braun appeared to subtly respond to multiple reports about his relationship with various big-name clients on social media.
30.08.2023 - 16:37 / variety.com
Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Every week, subscribers to Variety Intelligence Platform receive a “Mogul Memo” column addressed to one luminary or another in the entertainment industry, filled with candid advice on how they should do their business. This week, we’re doing something different: Bringing the “Mogul Memo” free to anyone who wants to listen via the “Strictly Business” podcast.
Think of it as a monologue version, just in time for an executive who could really use some blunt counsel: Scooter Braun, the well-known music-industry manager who watched a trio of his biggest clients walk out the door one after the other last week. As Andrew Wallenstein, author of the “Mogul Memo” column and chief media analyst at Variety Intelligence Platform, opens the episode, “I would have reached out sooner, but honestly, it’s so awkward.
I really don’t know what to say. Hallmark doesn’t make any ‘Sorry your career imploded!’ sympathy cards.” Listen to the podcast here: The full text of the “Mogul Memo” column about Braun is available here for Variety Intelligence Platform subscribers.
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.Scooter Braun appeared to subtly respond to multiple reports about his relationship with various big-name clients on social media.
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Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have reportedly dropped him.The Hollywood super agent — who has been branded by Taylor Swift as a “manipulative bully” amid years of hard-knuckle disputes over her master recordings — is also on the outs with his co-founders at TQ Ventures, an investment fund he helped launch in 2018, On The Money has learned. One source with direct knowledge said Braun’s co-founders — Andrew Marks, son of investing legend Howard Marks; and Schuster Tanger, heir to the Tanger Outlets mall fortune — have lately told some LPs that Scooter may not be involved in TQ’s future.Braun, Tanger and Marks each took an equal share at the fund’s inception even though Braun was not involved in the day-to-day operations, insiders said.
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Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande have parted ways with the manager. Other clients of his include Justin Bieber, David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Ava Max and Carly Rae Jepsen.After the reports came out, Braun shared a short and jokey response on X/Twitter last night (August 22).Addressing the reports, he wrote: “Breaking news… I’m no longer managing myself.”Breaking news… I’m no longer managing myself— Scott “Scooter” Braun (@scooterbraun) August 22, 2023Braun first rose to fame in 2008 after helping launch the career of a then-12-year-old Bieber, after seeing him performing on YouTube, and has since gone on to represent him for 15 years.
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Scooter Braun has finally responded to the headlines of high-profile celebs who’ve cut ties with the Hollywood manager.
Demi Lovato is parting ways with Braun, 42, a source claimed to Variety on Tuesday that Braun is “getting out of management — he has been for years. That’s the real story.”However, a music industry source with knowledge of the situation told The Post, “All of Scooter Braun’s clients are under contract and negotiations have been going on for several months as Scooter steps into his larger role as HYBE America CEO,” they said, referring to the South Korean entertainment corporation behind K-pop megastars BTS.The insider continued, “People are spreading rumors based on what they know, but they are off.
Scooter Braun is speaking out.
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