

James Lestock described a similar account there when he was a 17-year-old cello student. He told the Times that he and Levine masturbated each other when Brown was 17 at the Meadow Brook School of Music in Michigan, where Levin was on the summer program’s faculty.

Paul Chamber Orchestra for more than 30 years. Levine served as music director at the Ravinia Festival, outside Chicago, from 1973 to 1993.Ĭhris Brown played principal bass in the St. Pai said he reached out to police in Lake Forest because some of his encounters with Levine took place there in the mid-1980s. Met officials said they learned of the police report last year. Details of the police report were first reported on Saturday on the New York Post’s website. He reported the allegations to the police department in Lake Forest, Illinois, in October 2016. Then on Sunday, The New York Times reported similar accounts from two other men accusing Levine of sexual misconduct.Īccording to the Times, Pai said he was sexually abused by Levine starting in the summer of 1986, when he was 16. Met officials said they were launching an investigation. The move to suspend Levine came a day after the New York Post first reported that one of Levine’s accusers claimed he had sexual contact with Levine as a teenager. attorney and the current head of the investigations practice at the Proskauer Rose law firm, to lead the investigation into the allegations that took place from the 1960s to 1980s. The Met also said it has appointed attorney Robert J. Levine will not be involved in any Met activities, including conducting scheduled performances at the Met this season,” the Met said in a statement. New York’s Metropolitan Opera on Sunday said it was suspending its relationship with longtime conductor James Levine pending an investigation into multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
