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Edgar Bronfman Jr. Isn’t the Buffoon Some Claim

For years critics have claimed Edgar Bronfman Jr. is a buffoon managing his family company, Seagram, and taking over Warner Music, but a new book proves that he might be the man to save the music industry.

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When Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun found out that Edgar Bronfman Jr., scion of the Seagram’s family fortune, had bought Warner Music Group in 2004 his first thought was, “I can’t believe the company is being sold to that snot-nosed kid.”

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