Have we talked about the musician’s girlfriend?

I looked and didn’t see anything, so I apologize if this is a repeat.

This is my synopsis, and the link to the story, containing the girlfriend’s name, follows.

A young musical talent who had been playing the clarinet since he was 7 and had won numerous awards over the years.  His dream was to attend the prestigious Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he would study under the famed clarinet teacher Yehuda Gilad.

The teacher only accepts 2 students a year, and this guy was chosen as one of them with a full scholarship.  His girlfriend, also a musician, didn’t want him to go because she was either jealous of his talent or was afraid it would spell the end of their relationship so she sabatoged him.  She found the acceptance letter in his email before he saw it and she replied that he was no longer interested. Then she made up a phony email address for the teacher and sent him a rejection letter! She also sent a rejection letter for another school he was accepted to.

It is a horrible story where this guy’s dreams were ruined.  He found out by chance years later when he went to take a class from this master and the teacher asked him why he turned down the opportunity a few years prior.  He was confused because he received a rejection letter, which he forwarded to Yehuda Gilda showing the phony email address.  After much research, he learned it was this girlfriend, who he had broken up with a few months after she pulled this on him for completely unrelated reasons.

The judge in Canada awarded him $350,000 Canadian money as compensation.  That covered the years of tuition that the scholarship covered and he added an additional $50,000 because he was so disgusted with the girlfriend for doing this to him.  The girlfriend never showed up in court so he won the default judgment.  She hasn’t been located yet, so hopefully she is found and made to start paying this money back.  

Regardless, I imagine she will likely have zero chances for a career in music now that everyone knows what she did.  As well as difficulty in dating anyone who knows what she did.  Who could trust her now?  I just hope she is found quickly.  I also wonder if Canadian law would allow for her to be jailed for such an offense? She committed fraud via the internet, right?

Fortunately this guy was so talented that he still was given a prestigious appointment with a symphony on Toronto.  And he has a new girlfriend.

I have heard of many stupid thing that women do for love, but this reaches a new low.  Can you imagine?


www.npr.org/2018/06/15/620202403/musician-wins-260-000-in-lawsuit-against-ex-girlfriend-who-sabotaged-career