Deborah Dugan was placed on administrative leave by the Recording Academy after an allegation of misconduct by an employee
Thursday morning and alleged that Joel Katz, General Counsel for the Academy, had sexually harassed her.interview. “Starting with calling me ‘babe’ and saying how attractive I was and ‘pretty’ I was … the evening went on to [him] trying to kiss me,” she recalled. “All the way through I felt that I was being tested and how much would I acquiesce. I realized that was a power setting move just on the onset.”“Ms.
Douglas Wigdor, Dugan’s attorney, said that the Grammys are on “life support right now” and reiterated that Dugan was not placed on administrative leave until “weeks after” after she filed the complaint. “I moved across the country. I had a great job. I believe in what the Recording Academy should stand for for artists, and I was trying at each step to take a deep breath and say, ‘Okay, I can make a difference,” she said. “I can fix this. I can work with this team. And when I first started and — at that first meeting with Joel, there was also a board meeting and I found out that there was a rape allegation against the former CEO. That had not been brought to the attention.
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