United Kingdom, May 30 -- Taylor Swift now owns her master recordings "in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him".

The 35-year-old singer / songwriter revealed in an emotional open letter to fans on her website that she had recently bought back the rights to her first six albums, which Braun acquired from her former record label, Big Machine Records, in 2019.

In 2020, Braun went on to sell them to private equity firm Shamrock Capital and although it was recently claimed the music manager had "encouraged" Shamrock Capital to make a deal with Taylor, he was not involved in the recent acquisition.

A source told PEOPLE: "Contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside party who 'encouraged' this sale. All rightful credit for ...