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Civil Litigation,
Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 23, 2020

Former recording academy CEO files sex harassment suit

Deborah Dugan alleges Joel Katz, a longtime outside counsel for the Academy and a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, made sexual advances towards her at a restaurant encounter several months ahead of her arrival as the Academy’s CEO.

Only days after her ousting from the Grammys, former CEO Deborah Dugan blasted her former employers for everything from sexual harassment to grossly inflated outside counsel pay.

Dugan’s filing with the Equal Opportunity Council Tuesday against the group more formally known as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences said her forced departure was a result of her efforts to push back against what she called a “boys club” B...

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