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Scott Borchetta Reminisces About Meeting Taylor Swift 20 Years Ago

Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta recalled crossing paths with Taylor Swift 20 years ago

Alongside the message, the Big Machine Label Group CEO uploaded a pic of a teenage Swift, now 34, sitting in front of a microphone inside a crowded room. The drama came to a head in June 2019 when it was announced that Braun’s media company, Ithaca Holdings, had acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group for $300 million. Borchetta fired back in a June 2019 post on the label’s website titled “So, It’s Time For Some Truth.” In the upload, he claimed to have “personally texted Taylor … to inform her prior to the story [of Braun’s acquisition] breaking … so she could hear it directly from me.” He alleged that Swift “had every chance in the world to own not just her master recordings, but every video, photograph, everything associated to her career,” yet she still “chose to leave” Big Machine.

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