Sydney Sweeney is dating music executive Scooter Braun. They were first linked back in September 2025, but nobody confirmed anything until April 2026, when Braun reshared a photo of the two of them on his Instagram.

Since then the relationship has gone public in stages: a festival hard launch, then an NBA Finals appearance together. Here’s the full timeline, plus the background on Braun that most coverage skips.

Quick Facts

• Current partner: Scooter Braun
• Dating since: Around September 2025
• Went public: April 2026
• Status: Together, not engaged
• Previous relationship: Jonathan Davino (2018–2025)

The Sydney Sweeney Dating Timeline, Stage by Stage

June 2025 — They Meet in Venice

Sweeney and Braun reportedly crossed paths at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding in Venice. Nothing romantic was reported at the time. It was just the first documented moment they were in the same room.

September 2025 — “Casual” Reports Surface

By early September, People had a source calling it “casually hooking up.” One insider framed it as Sweeney just living her life post-breakup, nothing more. The two spent Labor Day weekend at Lake Tahoe together, and Braun reportedly showed up for her September 12 birthday.

December 2025 — Suddenly It’s “Serious”

Three months later, the story changed. Sources told People they were “going strong” and now in a “committed relationship.” That’s a fast jump for something that was described as purely casual in September, and it’s a jump nobody at any outlet has actually explained. Worth flagging: like almost everything else in this timeline, it’s sourced to anonymous insiders, not Sweeney or Braun themselves.

April–May 2026 — Instagram Official, Then the Real Hard Launch

April 15, 2026 is when things went semi-public. Braun reshared a photo from Sweeney’s Instagram story and added a caption. That’s a reaction, not an announcement — a soft confirmation at best.

The real hard launch came two weeks later. On May 1, Sweeney posted her own carousel from Stagecoach, couple photos included, captioned about a “cowboy kind of weekend.” This is the moment she chose to actively show the relationship off, rather than just letting Braun’s post stand.

June 2026 — NBA Finals

Most recently, the two were spotted at Game 5 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio. Sweeney surprised Braun with tickets, and video from the trip showed him toasting to her afterward on a private jet. This section will get longer as the relationship develops — that’s just how these stories go.

Who Is Scooter Braun?

If you only know Sweeney’s side of this, here’s who she’s actually dating.

His Career

Braun made his name as a talent manager, discovering and managing Justin Bieber early on. He built SB Projects and Ithaca Holdings, and his client list eventually included Ariana Grande. In 2021, HYBE — the South Korean company behind BTS — acquired Ithaca Holdings, which put Braun in the middle of one of the bigger U.S.-to-K-pop industry deals of the last decade.

His Past Marriage

He was married to Yael Cohen, who founded the nonprofit CancerLand, from 2014 to 2021. They have three kids together.

Age

Braun is 44. Sweeney is 28. That’s a 16-year gap, and at the time they were first linked, he wasn’t a public figure in his own right — he was an industry executive, which is part of why this pairing got so much attention so fast.

Why the Age Gap Actually Matters Here

It’s not just the 16 years. It’s that Sweeney is at the peak of her own fame right now, while Braun has spent his entire career operating behind the scenes, building other people’s careers instead of his own public profile.

A celebrity matchmaker told Fox News the pairing “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to an untrained eye” — a rising star linking up with someone whose entire currency is industry influence, not fame.

That kind of talent-meets-power pairing isn’t new in Hollywood. What’s unusual is having someone say it out loud instead of everyone just quietly noticing. That’s the real reason this relationship has generated more chatter than your average celebrity coupling — not the age gap alone, but what the age gap represents.

None of this says anything about whether the relationship is genuine. It’s just the dynamic people keep circling back to, and most coverage has avoided actually naming it.

What Changed From Jonathan Davino to Scooter Braun

Sweeney was with Jonathan Davino for almost seven years — dating from 2018, engaged in 2022, and reportedly planning a wedding before they split in early 2025. That entire relationship stayed private. No public displays, barely any commentary, nothing for tabloids to chew on.

Braun is the opposite. Within months of going public, there were festival photos, Instagram posts, appearances at major events. Sweeney has talked about this shift herself — she told Cosmopolitan she spent her twenties keeping her head down and focused on work, and now she wants to actually experience things, even admitting it’s hard to figure out love happening in public for the first time.

That timing isn’t a coincidence. 2026 has been a loud year for her brand — the Syrn lingerie launch, Euphoria Season 3, the American Eagle campaign fallout. Being more visible with Braun than she ever was with Davino looks less like an accident and more like a conscious choice about how she wants to be seen right now.

What’s Next

This relationship has moved fast — public within about seven months, compared to years of total privacy with Davino. If that pace holds, don’t be surprised to see them show up together at a red carpet or awards show later this year, especially with Euphoria’s press cycle still running.

But there’s zero indication of anything more serious than that right now. No engagement signals, nothing beyond a relationship that’s public and apparently going well. Anything past that is just speculation dressed up as insight.

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This will get updated as the Sydney Sweeney dating story develops.