FIRED: Idina Menzel HAS cut ties with her manager, Scooter Braun

Idina Menzel HAS cut ties with her manager, Scooter Braun.

Menzel announced she had signed with Braun in May 2019. The confirmation of her departure follows news that Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande also exited their deals with SB Projects this year.

News of the split was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Menzel is a Broadway star who’s earned three Tony nominations, winning best actress in a musical in 2004 for Wicked. She achieved pop star-like success after voicing the character of Elsa in 2013’s Frozen, achieving a major hit with the song “Let It Go,” which is 9x platinum (equivalent to selling 9 million units). More recently, Menzel has had roles in Disenchanted, Cinderella and American Murderer. She will also reunite onscreen with Adam Sandler in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, after starring opposite him in Uncut Gems.

Representatives for Menzel and Braun declined to comment.

Menzel is known for her roles in such Broadway productions as Rent and Wicked (for which she won a Tony) as well as her voice performances in both installments of Disney’s Frozen series. In 2014, she scored a top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Let It Go” from the first Frozen movie. Her recent acting roles include the Disney+ live-action musical Disenchanted and Amazon Studios’ Cinderella starring Camila Cabello. She released her seventh studio album, Drama Queen, on Friday (Aug. 18).

In 2021, Braun sold SB Projects’ parent company Ithaca Holdings to South Korean entertainment conglomerate HYBE, under which SB Projects has continued to operate. Braun is now HYBE America’s CEO and earlier this year helped oversee HYBE’s purchase of leading hip-hop label Quality Control.

SB Projects’ artist roster currently includes longtime client Justin Bieber. Following a report Friday (Aug. 18) that Bieber was looking to leave SB, reps for both parties told Billboard that such “rumors” were “not true.”