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UPDATED with CBS This Morning comments: Deborah Dugan, the ousted CEO of the Recording Academy, renewed her attacks on the institution in interviews Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning, the latter on the longtime network of the Grammy Awards. On GMA, she said she will still be watching Sunday’s…

UPDATED with statement from Deborah Dugan’s attorneys: Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow says a bombshell rape allegation made against him this week is “ludicrous and untrue.” It is his first response to the claim made by his successor Deborah Dugan in an EEOC filing that Portnow raped an unidentified female…

Recently ousted National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president and CEO Deborah Dugan’s discrimination complaint filed Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included allegations that her predecessor Neil Portnow raped a female recording artist, and is the “real reason” his contract was not…

Four months after male artists dominated the list of performers and winners at the Grammy Awards, longtime Recording Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow said today that he will exit the job next year. The move comes after a trophy show that was dogged by a #grammyssomale backlash, which included music executives…

While last night’s Grammy Awards produced highlights such as Kesha singing the #MeToo anthem “Praying” after a rousing introduction by Janelle Monae, the show’s big morning-after takeaway is a different Twitter hashtag: #GrammysSoMale. After male artists dominated the list of performances and winners, and the…