Justin Bieber
Break With Scooter Over Cash …
Audits Present Justin Owes Scooter Hundreds of thousands
Revealed
TMZ Studios
Justin Bieber‘s relationship with longtime supervisor Scooter Braun disintegrated over cash — tens of millions of {dollars} Justin claimed Scooter underhandedly took — however an in depth TMZ investigation exhibits simply the other.
TMZ has a brand new documentary, “TMZ Investigates: What Occurred to Justin Bieber,” which airs tonight on FOX at 9 PM ET, 8 Central.
When the disastrous “Justice” tour ended in 2022, a number of sources with direct data inform us Justin was broke. He owed AEG — the live performance promoter — $24 million as a result of he acquired a $40M upfront advance and Justin pulled the plug early on.
Scooter’s firm, Hybe, agreed to repay the debt and Justin signed a observe promising to pay again Hybe over a 10-year interval. Justin made one installment and stopped paying.
Our Scooter sources say Justin’s folks referred to as and stated he simply did not have the cash. Our Justin sources say Bieber’s enterprise supervisor, Lou Taylor, began digging into the books and concluded Scooter was grossly overpaid in commissions by $26 million.
Hybe then did an inner audit and decided Scooter was really underpaid commissions, and Justin owed him $1 million. We’re informed Scooter stated he waived that quantity, however Justin’s folks felt it was a corrupt audit as a result of Hybe was simply overlaying themselves.
Hybe then employed an impartial auditor — Pricewaterhouse, or PWC — and after a 6-month audit which was accomplished in April, PWC decided Justin really owed Scooter extra like $8,806,000. TMZ has seen the PWC audit report and the $8.806M determine is on the doc.
Our Justin sources say his crew didn’t dispute the PWC audit, however did conduct its personal audit. They might not reveal what they discovered.
Our documentary will get into Justin’s psychological well being, marriage, cash troubles, his church and his profession.
“TMZ Presents: What Occurred to Justin Bieber?” airs tonight at 9 PM ET, 8 Central.