‘Unthinkable, immoral act’: Woman ordered to pay $375,000 for sabotaging boyfriend’s musical career

Dfmahone · 2018-06-15T16:43:08+00:00

She’s a psychopath

infernophil · 2018-06-15T18:10:31+00:00

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A McGill University music student who impersonated her clarinetist boyfriend on the internet to sabotage his career and prevent him from moving away from her apartment in Montreal has been ordered to pay him $375,000 in compensation.

A judge has found this “despicable interference” in the boyfriend’s musical career was a deep betrayal that robbed him of “a unique and prestigious educational opportunity, one that would have advanced his career as a professional clarinetist.”

Jennifer Jooyeon Lee and Eric Abramovitz met at McGill’s Schulich School of Music in September 2013 and started a romantic relationship almost right away. By October, he lived in her apartment, and trusted her so much that he let her use his laptop, and gave her his passwords.

Both were accomplished musicians, she in flute, he in clarinet, for which he had won several competitions and been featured on CBC Radio 2.

That winter, Abramovitz applied to finish his degree under Yehuda Gilad, a top professor of clarinet at Colburn School in Los Angeles, part of the University of Southern California. This was a career goal for Abramovitz, to learn from the best, and after flying with his parents to L.A. to audition for one of just two spots, he was told to expect an answer by April 1, 2014.

I knew that something underhanded was afoot

As it turned out, Abramovitz won the spot, and a full scholarship to study with Gilad. School officials emailed him to say so, but Lee intercepted the email. Posing as Abramovitz, she wrote back to decline the offer, saying he would be “elsewhere.” Then she deleted the offer email.

Abramovitz would likely have eventually followed up with the school, not having heard anything himself. But there was another step in Lee’s deception. She created a fake email account in the name of the famous clarinet professor — [email protected] — to send a new fake offer email, purportedly from the professor.

“In this fake email, Ms. Lee wrote that Mr. Abramovitz had not been accepted at Colburn,” the judge wrote in his decision. Instead, the email offered him a different spot at USC under Gilad’s direction, but with only a modest scholarship of $5,000. Abramovitz would still have to pay fees of about $46,000, plus living expenses, which Lee knew he could not afford.

“She apparently did these things so that Mr. Abramovitz would not leave Montreal, and instead would stay in Montreal and remain in his relationship with her,” Judge David Corbett of Ontario Superior Court ruled.

Abramovitz was “completely taken in by this deception,” the judge found. He accepted the missed opportunity, finished his bachelor’s degree at McGill, and eventually took a less prestigious graduate certificate at USC, in which he had some interaction with Gilad, about an hour a week, but far less than he would have had under his original scholarship.

Professor Yehuda Gilad YouTube Gilad swore an affidavit in support of Abramovitz’s case, explaining how Abramovitz’s career path was disrupted. After getting a position in Nashville, Abramovitz has recently taken a position with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

“I am certain that had Eric not been robbed of his opportunity to study with me two years earlier, he could already have won an audition and been commanding this respectable salary two years earlier,” Gilad said in an affidavit. “I am very frustrated that a highly talented musician like Eric was the victim of such an unthinkable, immoral act that delayed his progress and advancement as an up-and-coming young musician and delayed his embarking on a most promising career.”

In an interview, Abramovitz explained how he discovered the ruse months later, long after his relationship with Lee ended in September 2014 for unrelated reasons.

It was at his second audition before Gilad, in which they had a brief and strange interaction, when Gilad said, “Why did you reject me?”

It was a fair question. As Abramovitz put it, “You don’t reject him.” But having done nothing of the sort, Abramovitz asked in return, “Why did you reject me?”

They could not sort it out then and there, but over time, the wonder lingered. Another student of Gilad’s asked him about it. Eventually, Abramovitz forwarded the fake email to Gilad, who replied: “I’ve never seen that in my life.”

“That’s when I knew that something underhanded was afoot,” Abramovitz said. One day in 2015, he and a friend set about trying to gain access to the fake email account, and because Abramovitz and Lee once shared a computer, he knew one of her passwords, which he tried.

“Miraculously, it logged right in,” he said. Her email was listed as the recovery email, her phone was the recovery phone. “We felt like Sherlock Holmes.”

Abramovitz also said she did a similar thing involving fake emails with his successful application to the Juilliard School in New York, causing him to decline it.

He said he is not certain he will be able to collect his damages, as he does not know where she is and she has blocked him on social media.

Lee could not be reached. She did not appear at the proceeding that led to this default judgment against her. Much of the ruling is taken up with the judge’s decision on why the case was properly heard in Ontario, Lee’s primary residence, and not Quebec.

The damages she must pay him are for “loss of educational opportunity and loss of income caused by redirection of Mr. Abramovitz’s career resulting from Ms. Lee’s wrongful conduct,” the judge wrote. Ambramovitz also sued for loss of reputation, and although the judge decided there was some, he decided his scathing ruling would more or less solve that problem by pointing out Abramovitz was found worthy of the opportunity to study with Gilad, and it was entirely Lee’s fault that he did not.

“Imagining how his life would have been different if he had studied for two years under Mr. Gilad, and earned his teacher’s respect and support, requires more speculation than the law permits. One hears, particularly in the arts, of the ‘big breaks’ that can launch a promising artist to a stratospheric career. I cannot speculate as to how high and how quickly Mr. Abramovitz’s career might have soared, but for the interference by Ms. Lee. But the law does recognize that the loss of a chance is a very real and compensable loss.”

Hot_Beef_Injection · 2018-06-15T17:10:09+00:00

Fucking insane. This is beyond madness. She should be hunted and forced to pay

Tauposaurus · 2018-06-15T16:41:55+00:00

Altho it's not really a pussy pass, and more ''a psycho got caught and couldn't be reached afterward''.

malicestar · 2018-06-15T15:41:31+00:00

He will never see a dollar from her. She'll get married to someone else, change her name and dodge the responsibility.

/r/PussyPassDeferred

iama_canadian_ehma · 2018-06-15T18:50:50+00:00

No amount of money can repair what she did to him. No amount of money.

Totsean · 2018-06-15T17:29:59+00:00

What a cunt, she is a cancer.

roofied_elephant · 2018-06-15T17:53:35+00:00

What a complete and total piece of shit god damn

trav9751 · 2018-06-15T17:51:50+00:00

“That’s when I knew that something underhanded was afoot,” Abramovitz said.

An unconfirmed source also said rather bluntly, ”This twat dicked him.”

HotNikkels_ · 2018-06-15T21:11:38+00:00

She should be jailed in lieu of non payment. This is abhorrent psychopathic behaviour. Again, switch roles and this kid would be featured on cnn as some rapist who stole the future of a bright young woman. He’d get crucified. Like the top comment states, she’ll get away with it. Brutal.

boobsRlyfe · 2018-06-15T18:18:36+00:00

Fuckkkkk this hurts my soul 😔

rooolng · 2018-06-15T21:59:31+00:00

“despicable interference” should also be applied to every false rape false violence accuser.

Discard72 · 2018-06-15T15:35:00+00:00

When she gets cancer an angel will get it's wings.

slver6 · 2018-06-15T21:18:00+00:00

this is no a pussypassdenied...

and

omg... this makes me feel sick, worse than visiting r/watchpeopledie holyfuck, what a piece of shit not a woman or whatever she is a fucking monster.

"two years LOST"

I hope he can catch up with his career :(

montanahugs · 2018-06-15T17:19:28+00:00

I’m pretty sure she just sent in a tape of squidward playing his clarinet.

letsplayyatzee · 2018-06-15T18:13:06+00:00

What a bitch.

AntiAbleism · 2018-06-15T19:05:52+00:00

Nasty cunt.

outlawa · 2018-06-16T15:03:19+00:00

I remember when I decided to get my life back in gear and head off to college (junior college). My GF at the time told me she was against it because there would be a chance I'd be successful and wouldn't need her any more.

Freaky_Febreeze · 2018-06-15T16:37:03+00:00

Never trust the skanks.

dog_of_satan · 2018-06-15T22:27:09+00:00

We need a good picture of this woman as a public service announcement to avoid her scum sucking ways.

Romerike · 2018-06-16T06:40:16+00:00

How can she just not go to court? Seems like contempt, even in Canada

Horchheimer · 2018-06-16T12:02:45+00:00

Serious question.

375k is a lot of money for most people... some, more than they’ll see or earn their entire lives; how does this man receive his compensation if she can’t afford to pay? Could she claim something like this under bankruptcy if she can’t afford it?

Catson2 · 2018-06-16T13:39:55+00:00

TLDR bot where you

Canuck_Hoser_Eh · 2018-06-16T23:06:42+00:00

if the genders were reversed the feminist would light their collective hair on fire !

alc0 · 2018-06-15T17:16:59+00:00

She will never pay. If anything she will be rewarded somehow and he will be jailed, you know to start a conversation about sexism or something.

joemac5367 · 2018-06-15T21:10:32+00:00

"That’s when I knew that something underhand was afoot”

:D

Soundcloudlover · 2018-06-15T20:18:59+00:00

I guess they'll have to find her... Truly unbelievable what she did.

2018-06-16T02:59:52+00:00

This is just horrible but not surprising.

Audibledogfarts · 2018-06-16T10:50:50+00:00

Can they garnish wages in Canada? They should led do that to her until she is all paid up.

Excavateandfill · 2018-06-18T12:26:03+00:00

Dumb slut cunt

2018-06-28T23:30:45+00:00

Does she have 375,000? If not then she'll declare bankruptcy and he'll never see a dime.

Maybe she's still on her parent's insurance.

(couldn't read article as I use an adblocker)

Tonydanzafan69 · 2018-06-15T19:15:53+00:00

Yeah that's never getting paid to him. The government only cares if you owe them money.

2018-06-15T19:58:42+00:00

Geez, that anti-adblock measure is quite aggressive, I disabled ABP and it didn't buy it. I had more success reading the article by using ABP even more to block the blocking elements.

rockSWx · 2018-06-16T10:43:15+00:00

What fucking retard shares all of his passwords/accounts?

doyoudaremeto · 2018-06-15T19:48:31+00:00

I just saw this headline elsewhere, hoping that he'd get some kind of restitution. Justice is sweet.

OgreAllOver · 2018-06-15T20:23:23+00:00

Shes a literal dream killer...

xdudeson17x · 2018-06-16T01:23:08+00:00

Still tho. That really sucks

rinshd · 2018-06-16T02:13:04+00:00

Wow she's really a sociopath, she needs help and imprisonment

SpiderRealm · 2018-06-16T03:59:34+00:00

She makes me so mad! And what makes me angrier is that their relationship didn't even last! I am so glad she had to pay so much for what she did and I hope no one decides to help her with it, and that whatever career she's in fails. I am so glad the judge slammed the hammer down on her head instead of brushing it under the rug with a light tap to her pathetic wrists.

SVTterminator · 2018-06-16T12:33:51+00:00

This story needs to blow up and she shouldn't be allowed to change her last name.

TVops · 2018-06-15T22:06:25+00:00

What kind of institution sends just an email for that kind of thing?? I got at least 3 physical letters in the mail when I got accepted to college.

srtor · 2018-06-16T13:03:36+00:00

Good luck in getting the payment. In the land of Cuckanada.

AllahHatesFags · 2018-06-15T15:43:35+00:00

She probably went back to Korea. Her punishment should be to go to Kim Jong-Un's labor camp.

888ghostbuster · 2018-06-15T20:47:07+00:00

Jennifer Jooyeon Lee
Eric Abramovitz

LOL jesus this is now the least progressive pairing in the USA bar none. edit: downvotes by ugly abramovitzs who can only pull Lees lol.

2018-06-15T20:32:35+00:00

This is not only how women show love, but also how any kind of submissive and needy person shows love. Be aware people

LovelessDerivation · 2018-06-15T21:58:42+00:00

S'a damned shame. Everyone knows Jews love to eat Asian.

Ultramegasaurus · 2018-06-15T16:03:08+00:00

Asian women do everything to get and keep white men.

Leoinu · 2018-06-19T01:47:06+00:00

do you guys think this really fits this sub's description, i mean is there a situation where you imagine this happening to some guy and then he confronts his significant other about it and she says 'well i'm a girl! i get to do things like this!' and then the guy says under his breath 'insufferable pussy pass, curse you and your inequality'

oh wait no none of that makes any sense you're all just braindead ogres

xstevemo · 2018-06-15T17:29:19+00:00

Didn't read the story, but did she give him that haircut to ruin his career?

2018-06-15T18:02:01+00:00

they're both idiots.

oxymo · 2018-06-15T22:24:06+00:00

Never date a musician,

Tryforce711 · 2018-06-15T22:49:52+00:00

Shes kinda cute tho

Title	‘Unthinkable, immoral act’: Woman ordered to pay $375,000 for sabotaging boyfriend’s musical career
Author	Leo_pard_
Upvotes	4760
Comments	324
Date	June 15, 2018 2:52 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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