CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND SABOTAGED MAN’S MUSICAL CAREER
A Canadian court last week ruled that Jennifer Lee sabotaged her clarinet-playing boyfriend’s career by deleting an email he’d received from a prestigious music school and replacing it with a fake rejection note. Lee was dating Eric Abramovitz in 2014 when the two of them were music students at McGill University in Montreal. Abramovitz applied to study at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles under Yehuda Gilad, the famed clarinet teacher who accepts only two new students a year. Each one receives a full-ride scholarship, and those that are accepted are virtually guaranteed a high-paying symphony career upon graduation. Abramovitz won a scholarship, but what he found in his email inbox was a rejection email. He was crushed. A few years later, he was able to do some study with the maestro, who wondered why Abramovitz had never accepted the scholarship. Abramovitz did some digging and found that his girlfriend had forged the rejection note. Her alleged motive: to keep Abramovitz from moving away. A judge awarded Abramovitz $260,000 from Lee, although he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to ever collect the damage. Meanwhile, Abramovitz just got a new position as clarinetist at the Toronto Symphony, and he has a new girlfriend.
* It was clari-not to be.
* Boy, and I thought it was bad when my ex kept my Michael Bublé Christmas CD.
* Kudos to the music school for not following up with a phone call when their email went unanswered.
* The gals really go for the old licorice stick.
* The old girlfriend must have really liked his fingering.
* Yehuda Gilad, not just A famed clarinet teacher but THE famed clarinet teacher.
PHONE TOPIC: Have you ever sabotaged someone? Has anyone ever sabotaged you?
CLIP: Here’s a bit of Eric Abramovitz playing clarinet.
