- Wrote a hit song for Céline Dion: "To Love You More".
- Met 1st wife, Sherri Brewer, through singer Dionne Warwick. When Edgar Sr. warned him that his and Sherri's children "would have problems being accepted by either black or white society" (Sherri is black), the two Edgars did not speak for a year and did not reconcile until 1982, when Senior shocked Junior by asking him to join Seagram.
- Father Edgar M. Bronfman revealed United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past, which led to Waldheim's resignation.
- Was responsible for Seagram's purchase of PolyGram, which he merged with Seagram's Universal Music Group to create the largest music company in the world. [1998]
- Is currently Chairman & CEO of Warner Music Group, a company he helped to buy from Time Warner and took public one year after the acquisition. After much reorganization and cost-cutting, as well as hiring away former Island-Def Jam head, Lyor Cohen, to run the music management sector, he hopes the company will be poised for further growth. [2004]
- Attended Harvard University, but left to pursue entertainment-related ventures.
- Is the cousin of Canadian film entrepreneur Paul Bronfman.
- Grandson of Samuel Bronfman.
- Bronfman, along with private investment equity groups, purchase Warner Music Group (comprised of Warner Bros. Records, Elektra Entertainment, and Atlantic Records) from Time Warner. After cost-cutting and reorganizations, he takes the company public in an IPO in May 2005. (2004)
- Chairman and CEO of Seagram Inc., which owns Universal Pictures (1996)
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