He may be known for his combative management style and high-profile feuds with Taylor Swift and former protégé Justin Bieber, but now Scooter Braun is making waves of a different kind – this time in the Pacific Ocean.
The music mogul’s three children, Jagger, nine, Levi, seven, and six-year-old daughter Hart, became the youngest people ever to swim with killer whales during a trip to Baja California last week.
A source told DailyMail.com: ‘Scooter and his children were vacationing on the ocean off the coast of Baja, swimming with sea lions, manta rays and pilot whales.
‘On their last morning, an orca family came during their final swim – a mother and baby.
‘Thanks to this once-in-a-lifetime experience, Scooter’s children have now become the youngest people to swim with orcas.
‘It was an incredible way to end the trip.’
Music mogul Scooter Braun’s children became the youngest people to swim with Orcas during a once-in-a-life time encounter off the coast of Baja California this week
The 44-year-old shared video of the special moment with his family on social media, describing it as ‘one of the greatest days of my life’
Braun, 44, later posted a video of himself on the whale adventure boat alongside his three children – who he shares with ex-wife Yael Cohen – adding: ‘it might be my favorite video ever’.
Another video – captioned ‘special times’ – showed the music chief swimming with six-year-old Hart while pilot whales passed underneath.
A third video shows the family swimming with the orcas, with Braun describing the experience as ‘one of the greatest days of my life’.
He went on: ‘After a few days with friends in the ocean I decided to run it back with my kids and my friends [influencers] @thebucketlistfamily .
‘We spent 3 more amazing days with our kids in the ocean swimming with sea lions and mantas and pilot whales but all the while playing the Free Willy song and hoping for the mighty orcas.
‘And of course on our last morning a family of orcas appeared, and we spent the morning swimming and observing what I can only say was the most incredible experience of my life.
Braun and his family were on an Pacific Ocean getaway and were swimming on their last day when an orca family came during their final swim – a mother and baby
The embattled music mogul has two sons and a daughter with ex-wife Yael Cohen. The two divorced in 2022
‘But to do it with our kids… to see them light up… and to see the mother and baby orca stop and stare at them…’
The relaxing trip marks a change of pace for the Hybe boss who hit the headlines earlier this week over a recent appearance on Danielle Robay’s Question Everything podcast.
In it, Braun spoke about the fallout from his 2019 decision to acquire and then sell Swift’s back catalog for a cool $300million – a move that earned him the ire of her legion of fans.
‘You know, me even talking about this now, there’s gonna be … They’re gonna be yelling and screaming and this, that and the other,’ the dad-of-three told the podcast.
‘You can’t say anything right, and it is what it is. My response to that is they made the horrible miscalculation that I care.
‘You know, I don’t know those people out there. And if I met them in person and they needed my help, as a stranger, I would help them.’
Braun – a power player in the music industry – is credited for discovering and managing Justin Bieber during his rise to fame. The two have since parted ways
He is also known for his high-profile feud with pop star Taylor Swift, which was triggered after he famously gained ownership of her masters when he acquired her former record label in 2019 for $300million
He went on: ‘I think people forget that when you have a fan base that big and 10,000 people are yelling at you, it feels like the world is ending, but that’s less than one percent of a fan base that big.
‘I think most people are dealing with their own problems. I think most people are dealing with their own insecurities the same way I am, the same way every artist and every human being is.
‘And I think it’s just a more productive use of your time to not get stuck in the craziness of celebrity fodder and focus more on being kind to people.’
Along with Swift, Braun has been in a well-documented fight with troubled Canadian star Bieber with whom he recently struck a $31.5million deal to cover the costs of show cancelations and unpaid commissions.
Those arose as a result of the 31-year-old’s decision to cut ties with Braun’s management company Hybe America.
Although neither have commented publicly on the deal, Braun commended his former protégé in an Instagram post earlier this month and praised his latest album Swag.
He wrote: ‘This is, without a doubt, the most authentically Justin Bieber album to date. It’s beautiful, raw, and truly him. And that matters.’