Justin Bieber & Scooter Braun: $8 Million Drama!

Описание: This week TMZ dropped this bombshell news story that Justin owes Scooter Braun's company over eight million dollars And that's when people really started to put some pieces together as to what the heck is going on with Justin and some of the past stuff that we've heard So here's what was reported Back in 20 22 Justin was gearing up for a world tour He reportedly got a forty million dollar advance from AEG but then the tour was canceled And apparently that cancellation triggered a clause in the contract that required Justin to pay back twenty four million of the advance Now here's where Scooter comes in At the time Scooter Braun's company Hive America stepped in and paid the 24 million dollars that Justin owed to AEG with the understanding that Justin would pay it back over ten years Which okay not a small favor but apparently Justin made one payment and then he stopped So now 2 years later Hive America is like where's the money Hive did an internal audit and claims that Justin still owes eight point eight million dollars and this has caused a major tension behind the scenes Reportedly Justin's team has pushed back saying Scooter was actually overpaid twenty six million dollars in commissions during his management This discovery was apparently made when Lou Taylor was working for Justin Bieber as his business manager TMZ wrote Our scooter sources say Justin's people called and said he just didn't have the money Our Justin sources say Bieber's business manager Lou Taylor started digging into the books and concluded Scooter was grossly overpaid in commissions by twenty six million dollars If true that would be wild But Hybe brought in Pricewaterhouse a major audit firm to do an independent audit and they sided with Scooter concluding that Justin owes him that 8.8000000 To make things even messier Scooter reportedly waived one million dollars in unpaid commissions to try and smooth things over but clearly that hasn't worked And we have to remember that Justin and Scooter go way back I mean Scooter was the one to really discover Justin bring him into the industry He's been with him through all the highs all the lows all the breakups the marriage everything And yet in 20 23 it was quietly reported that Justin and Scooter had parted ways No huge announcement no drama online But now that this money situation has come out people are starting to look back at that and wonder if this is why they stopped working together Now something to note is that he did sell his music catalog in 2023 for two hundred million dollars which obviously sounds like a lot of money and it is