The controversy over the ousting of former Grammy president Deborah Dugan now sounds like something straight out of a limited T.V series plot. Documents published online on Wednesday indicate that the Grammy ‘s Academy has some serious explaining to do, especially considering this is not the first time that the Academy has been accused of corruption.
Discrimination complaints filed by Dugan claim that the Academy A) discriminated against her as its President and B) has a rigged nominations process that isn’t fair for all and only some.
And then… shit hit the fan and fast.
According to at least two parts of the complaint, Dugan maintains that after historically entering the job she was harassed by the Grammy ‘s top lawyer Joel Katz. Katz, for those who don’t know, has been the Academy ‘s top lawyer for much of the past several years if not more.
In case it couldn’t get any worse, it actually very much does. Dugan then goes on to claim in the documents that a top executive raped a foreign female recording artist but had help from on the inside to cover it up. The Academy, from what we’ve learned, has not commented on that particular claim yet.
‘Rather than promoting a transparent nomination process the Board has decided to shroud the process in secrecy, and ultimately controls, in large part, who is nominated for Grammy Awards,’ the complaint says.
We’ve reached out to the Academy for comment.
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