{"id":803341,"date":"2020-01-22T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=941595"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:30:31","slug":"claudine-little-says-deborah-dugan-is-spreading-a-false-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/claudine-little-says-deborah-dugan-is-spreading-a-false-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudine Little Says Deborah Dugan is Spreading a \u2018False Narrative\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

The drama around Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan\u2019s unexpected ouster from her post last week continues to rapidly unfurl. On Tuesday, Dugan filed a 46-page discrimination complaint<\/a> with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, contesting her exit from the Academy and accusing members of sexual harassment and assault. In it, Dugan also accused the Academy\u2019s director of administration Claudine Little \u2014 who was previously the executive assistant to former CEO Neil Portnow for 17 years \u2014 of filing an unfair complaint of \u201cbullying\u201d against her with colleagues. On Wednesday, Little responded with a claim that Dugan is spreading a \u201cfalse narrative,\u201d and is reportedly preparing a lawsuit against Dugan alleging abuse and mistreatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Dugan\u2019s choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan\u2019s abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy\u2019s President and CEO,\u201d Little told Rolling Stone <\/em>via a representative. \u201cI am proud of my career with the Academy \u2014 where, as a woman, I was able to work my way from secretary to Director of Administration in the executive suite, solely based on merit and while working for and with leaders far more demanding and hard-charging than Ms. Dugan. It is disappointing that Ms. Dugan hopes to leverage public opinion along gender lines and expects not to be scrutinized for her inexcusable behavior simply because she is a woman; she should be held to the same standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Little\u2019s rep declined to provide the contents of the letter that she sent to the Academy alleging Dugan\u2019s misconduct, but confirmed that she first contacted the Academy regarding the \u201cwork environment under Ms. Dugan\u201d on December 17th, 2019. Dugan filed her own set of allegations \u2014 which widely addressed harassment, the work environment, and corruption within the organization \u2014 with the Academy\u2019s human resources head Shonda Grant on December 22nd, 2019, according to Dugan\u2019s EEOC complaint on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere appears to be a manufactured crisis shaped by the Executive Committee\u2019s unseen contacts with Claudine,\u201d Dugan wrote to Grant on December 22nd. \u201cThe fact that the Executive Committee has chosen to manufacture this crisis to my distinct disadvantage raises some serious questions of their creating a hostile and retaliatory work environment in order to derail my efforts at addressing serious fiduciary irregularities and concerning conflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Via the rep, Little also declined to comment on the allegations set forth in Dugan\u2019s complaint surrounding Neil Portnow and sexual assault.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The drama around Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan\u2019s unexpected ouster from her post last week continues to rapidly unfurl. On Tuesday, Dugan filed a 46-page discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, contesting her exit from the Academy and accusing members of sexual harassment and assault. In it, Dugan also accused the Academy\u2019s director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 00:41:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}