Girlfriend derails musician's career by replacing college acceptance letter w/fake rejection letter.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/15/clarinetist-discovers-his-ex-girlfriend-faked-a-rejection-letter-from-his-dream-school/?utm_term=.40c47c249dc4

Clarinetist discovers his ex-girlfriend faked a rejection letter from his dream school

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Abramovitz spent hours every night practicing, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. And after his live audition in Los Angeles in February 2014, he was confident that he would be accepted.Eric Abramovitz was 7 years old when he first learned to play the clarinet. By the time he was 20, the Montreal native had become an award-winning clarinetist, studying with some of Canada’s most elite teachers and performing a solo with Quebec’s finest symphony orchestra.

During his second year studying at McGill University, he decided to apply to the world-class Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, which offers every student a scholarship covering tuition, room and board, and living expenses. He hoped to study under Yehuda Gilad, an internationally renowned clarinet professor who accepts only two new students per year at Colburn.

Abramovitz spent hours every night practicing, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. And after his live audition in Los Angeles in February 2014, he was confident that he would be accepted.

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But two years later, Abramovitz would find out that he was, in fact, accepted to the program. The letter was sent not by Gilad but by Abramovitz’s girlfriend, a flute student at McGill who had spent night after night consoling him about the rejection, Abramovitz said.

The girlfriend had logged onto his email account and deleted his acceptance letter to Colburn, Abramovitz said. She impersonated Abramovitz in an email to Gilad, declining the offer because he would be “elsewhere.” Then she impersonated Gilad through a fake email address, telling Abramovitz he had not been accepted, according to Abramovitz.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/15/clarinetist-discovers-his-ex-girlfriend-faked-a-rejection-letter-from-his-dream-school/?utm_term=.b93229680d49

On Wednesday, a judge in Ontario Superior Court awarded Abramovitz $350,000 in damages in Canadian dollars (more than $260,000 U.S. dollars) caused by his girlfriend’s “reprehensible betrayal of trust” and “despicable interference in Mr Abramovitz’s career,” the judge, D.L. Corbett, wrote.

[Kentonio]

1. Christ..

That is just.. I can't even find the words.

[Demovictory9]

2. more here... they should make movie out of this

In 2016, about two years after he thought he was rejected by Gilad, Abramovitz applied once more to study with the renowned professor.

Gilad remembered Abramovitz. And after his audition, Gilad asked him a perplexing question: “What are you doing here? You rejected me. ”

[mrs_p]

10. It sounds totally like something

My seven year old daughter would watch!

Similar story line in the Cinderella Story, which she loves.

[brewens]

3. If that was me the girl would need a witness protection program. n/t

[Demovictory9]

5. internet quickly identified her from the court records. she will need to keep a low profile

her photo has been posted too.

[MrsCoffee]

12. Really?

Sounds like she needs a mental health professional.

What exactly would she need protecting from?

She is an asshole for sure. But your post is pretty disturbing.

[LuvLoogie]

4. The whole damn alphabet...

I'll start.

She is an Asshole....

[RKP5637]

6. Even a worst enemy might not stoop this low. n/t

[malaise]

7. That woman is pure evil

Good effin' grief.

[JI7]

8. That's fucked up. She has probably done other similar things like

this as a way to control others.

[Igel]

9. She got off easy. n/t

[RobinA]

11. A Friend Of Mine's

mother did this. Intercepted her mail when she was applying to colleges. Into the trash can. Ugh.

[Demovictory9]

17. double ugh. i had friend whose mom would open her mail, take financial aid checks and cash them

[Ilsa]

13. What was her excuse for treating someone so badly?

Not that it matters, except to determine if she should be committed to a mental hospital. She might be dangerous, not just manipulative.

[LisaL]

14. Apparently she didn't want him to move.

Or at least that's what he thinks. She never responded to the lawsuit.

[Oneironaut]

15. It makes sense to psychotic, manipulative control freaks.

I’m not sure what they’re thinking, tbh. They probably feel a sense of ownership over the person, and therefore feel like they’re justified. It’s bizarre.

[Lee-Lee]

16. We had a similar case to this when I was a deputy

It was a girlfriend intecpting the boyfriends college acceptance letters. They lived out in a rural area and their mailbox was out of sight of any other homes. She had a free period in her class schedule and was driving out there every day and screening his mail and taking any letters from schools she didn’t want him to go to.

The parents had noticed some looked like the envelopes were damaged but just thought it was damaged in the mail. It was only discovered because one of the schools also sent the school guidance counselors lists of who from that school had been accepted. Then they followed up with other schools he had not heard from and discovered they had mailed letters also.

She was only caught because she got into a spat with a friend who then went and told the guidance counselor she had seen the letters in the girlfriends locker. The school searched the locker and found them there.

She ended up facing both theft and possession of stolen property charges from our agency as well as being referred to the USPS Postal inspectors who also pursued Federal charges.

All because she only wanted him to go to the same school she planned to.