Scooter Braun was telling the truth all along! Perezcious readers know the 44-year-old record executive has been the villain in the eyes of many Swifties for years over how he handled the sale of Taylor Swift's masters. But should he have been demonized all this time? The drama started when Scooter shelled out $300 million to purchase Big Machine Label Group and its music catalog through his holding company, Ithaca Ventures. This included all of the pop star's first six albums. Taylor first claimed she found out about the sale with the rest of the world and never got the chance to purchase her own music before it went to Justin Bieber's former manager. And in November 2020, Scooter sold her masters to Shamrock Capital - which only upset her more. She then accused the businessman's team of wanting her to sign an "ironclad NDA stating I would never say another word about Scooter Braun unless it was positive, before we could even look at the financial records of BMLG." Related: Chris Noth Reveals EXACTLY What Caused 'Hurtful' Feud With Sarah Jessica Parker! Tay Tay wasn't going to stand for it, though. The songstress got revenge and re-recorded most of her first six albums before she was finally able to buy the rights back from Shamrock last summer. With no help from Scooter! However, throughout the whole saga, Scooter has maintained that Taylor lied about everything. He insisted to Variety back in 2023 that he offered to sell her music back to her, but her team rejected it: "I regret and it makes me sad that Taylor had that reaction to the deal. ... All of what happened has been very confusing and not based on anything factual. I don't know what story she was told. I asked for her to sit down with me several times, but she refused. I offered to sell her the catalog back and went under NDA, but her team refused." Guess what? It turns out Scooter told the truth all this time! And there was even proof to back it up! Back in 2023, Music Business Worldwide obtained old emails between Braun and Taylor's teams about her masters - and it shows he wanted to sell it back to her! Jay Schaudies from the musician's management firm 13 Management reached out to him on May 15, 2020. This was 11 months after Ithaca Holdings bought the masters and before Scooter sold it to Shamrock in October 2020, FYI. In the email, Schaudies CONFIRMED that Scooter expressed interest in selling Tay her masters: "We last spoke on May 5 when you asked me to call you after I emailed you saying that we were still interested in purchasing all of the Taylor Swift assets and rights held by BMLG. You said you were not interested in selling BMLG as a whole, but that you were interested in selling Taylor her masters. You have told me and others, such as Ed Sheeran, that you'd like to see Taylor own these, and I appreciate any efforts on your part to help make that happen." Whoa... Schaudies then brings up what Taylor seemed to have an issue with regarding the sale of all her masters - an NDA in which she couldn't say anything about Scooter. Here's some background on the matter. According to Music Business Worldwide, 13 Management and Ithaca mutually signed a non-disclosure agreement back in November 2019, allowing her team to investigate the finances of Big Machine, presumably with the plan of letting her acquire her masters back from Scooter. Wait, so they were in talks to purchase her music even back then? However, the publication obtained the signed NDA and discovered it made no mention of the aforementioned clause! So, did the Evermore artist lie about the allegation? Apparently, Ithaca and 13 Management started working together to draft a whole new NDA months later! And it is the clause within this version that Taylor took issue with! Schaudies continued to write in the email to Braun: "As you know, we discussed a possible transaction in November and December last year and we both signed an NDA, but then David Bolno said he wanted to stop the process and did not allow us to look at any of the underlying financials. In our recent call, you said you would respond to me in 48 hours. Since it has now been almost two full business weeks without further communication from you on this point, I wanted to repeat, again, my desire to get inside the data room and allow Ernst & Young to conduct necessary due diligence. I offered to sign a new NDA, and you said you wanted to think about that, considering more stringent restrictions beyond the deal itself. You suggested that both Taylor and her publicist Tree Paine should be prohibited from speaking at all about you or your investors. I said that can't happen, but that the details of the deal could be protected." He then offered to sign a similar NDA as they did before in November 2019: "The NDA cannot serve as a one-sided, surrogate gag order. Taylor must be free to promote her music and when she re-records old songs, she should be free to speak without inappropriate limitations. Nevertheless, we are more than hap