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UPDATED: As the war of words between the Recording Academy and ousted president/CEO Deborah Dugan continues to escalate, interim boss Harvey Mason Jr. today issued a statement to the Academy’s membership about Dugan’s alleged misconduct and warned about “leaks and misinformation.”

As the war of words between the Recording Academy and ousted president/CEO Deborah Dugan continues to escalate, interim boss Harvey Mason Jr. today issued a statement to the Academy’s membership about Dugan’s alleged misconduct and warned about “leaks and misinformation.”

In the latest twist in the increasingly bitter exit of Deborah Dugan from the Recording Academy after just five months, the ousted president/CEO is about to be sued by her former assistant, Claudine Little, and has retained former Harvey Weinstein attorney Patty Glaser to represent her, two sources tell Variety. The news was first reported by Showbiz 411, which said “the lawsuit would allege that Dugan caused an untenable situation in the executive offices that included verbal abuse and

The Recording Academy hired a new chief executive in August. Just a few months later, she’s been placed administrative leave 10 days ahead of the Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy claims she was removed for a “bullying management style,” but she also recently authored a memo detailing many issues at the Grammys, noting “something is seriously amiss" with music’s biggest awards show.

Saluting the Los Angeles music community and the 62nd Grammy Awards nominees was the singular mission during the Recording Academy/Los Angeles Chapter's annual Nominees Celebration Saturday (Jan. 18).

The case of Deborah Dugan’s ouster as president and chief executive of the Recording Academy has taken two dramatic twists.The attorney representing Dugan says he has hired a security detail to guard the Los Angeles-based executive, who was placed on administrative leave this week due to "serious concerns" brought to the board of trustees' attention."Based upon credible and extremely disturbing information, Deborah Dugan now has 24-hour, round-the-clock security," Bryan Freedman tells The

The case of Deborah Dugan’s ouster as president and chief executive of the Recording Academy has taken two dramatic twists.The attorney representing Dugan says he has hired a security detail to guard the Los Angeles-based executive, who was placed on administrative leave this week due to "serious concerns" brought to the board of trustees' attention."Based upon credible and extremely disturbing information, Deborah Dugan now has 24-hour, round-the-clock security," Bryan Freedman tells The

Chuck D has thrown his support behind Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan in a sharply-worded statement blasting the organization following her suspension. On Thursday, news broke that Dugan had been placed on administrative leave just over a week ahead of the 2020 Grammy Awards, due to what t

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Among the concerns listed in a memo sent to the Recording Academy’s head of HR by president/CEO Deborah Dugan before she was placed on administrative leave Thursday was an item about the organization’s “exorbitant and unnecessary” legal fees to outside law firms, according to sources familiar with the document.

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Insiders tell Page Six they suspect the Grammys fired its first-ever female boss in an attempt to silence her — after she wrote a bombshell memo alleging misconduct inside the organization, including sketchy voting practices, financial mismanagement, and conflicts of interest.

“Change is afoot,” Deborah Dugan said more than once during interviews with Variety in the weeks before her shocking removal from her post as president/CEO of the Recording Academy after just five months on the job. During those conversations, Dugan spoke of changes she planned to make in the Academy’s staffing organization, its Board of Trustees and its reporting structure.

Chuck D, frontman of Public Enemy — who are receiving the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammys next week — posted a long statement on Instagram criticizing the Recording Academy over its sudden ousting of new president/CEO Deborah Dugan yesterday.

The organizers of the Grammy Awards have removed their new president and chief executive after an allegation of misconduct, leaving the organization in disarray 10 days before the annual music industry showcase.

In the wake of her suspension as Recording Academy president and CEO, which blindsided industry players in and outside of the academy late Thursday night, Deborah Dugan said through her attorney that she'll soon "expose" what really happened."What has been reported is not nearly the story that needs to be told," said Dugan's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Grammy awards have often caused controversy and it seems like this year may be no different.

Less than 12 hours after news broke that Deborah Dugan had been placed on administrative leave from her post as president/CEO of the Recording Academy, her attorney fired back with a statement.

Deborah Dugan, who took over as Recording Academy president/CEO on Aug.

As the music industry reeled in the wake of Deborah Dugan’s sudden removal from her post as president/CEO of the Recording Academy on Thursday — a mere five months after she’d taken charge, and just ten days before the Grammy Awards — even insiders were stunned by the abruptness of the move and perplexed by the purported reasons for it. Whatever the cause, it threw the Academy, which was preparing for its first show under a new boss with big ideas, into chaos.

She faces an allegation of misconduct

Deborah Dugan, the Recording Academy president and CEO who took over for Neil Portnow last August, has been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into misconduct allegations. The news comes just a week prior to this year’s Grammy Awards, which take place on Sunday, January 26. The Recording Academy confirmed the news in a statement (via Variety):

New Recording Academy head Deborah Dugan has been placed on administrative leave.