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Legendary opera conductor molested teen for years: police report
NY Post ^ | 12/2/2017 | Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein

Posted on 12/03/2017 8:30:50 AM PST by bkopto

Legendary Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine molested an Illinois teenager from the time he was 15 years old, sexual abuse that lasted for years and led the alleged victim to the brink of suicide, according to a police report obtained by The Post.

The alleged victim came forward to the Lake Forest, Ill. Police Department in October 2016 to detail the molestation, including times when Levine would masturbate in front of him and kiss his p*n*s, according to the report.

The alleged victim informed a former Met Opera board member of the alleged abuse in 2016 and she alerted the Met’s general manager, yet Levine continued to wield his baton.

The now 74-year-old maestro, who spent 40 years as music director of the Metropolitan Opera and is currently director emeritus, conducted a performance of Verdi’s “Requiem” at Lincoln Center Saturday.

The alleged victim’s 2016 claims came nine years after the statute of limitations on a possible child sex crime in Illinois had expired. The age of consent in that state is 17.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexual; homosexualagenda; illinois; jameslevine; metoo; metropolitanopera; music; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; opera; pederasty
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To: dsc

I seek to emphasize their agenda:

They want to normalize their behavior to attain easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN.


61 posted on 12/04/2017 9:57:00 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Sooth.

They have already succeeded to a degree, as is evidenced by the growing number of the disordered.


62 posted on 12/04/2017 9:59:37 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: TMA62

Ashok Pai, the victim in question, is Indian American so I doubt this is a divorce situation. According to reports, he also had parents that took him to concert where he first met Mr Levine. Still a tough home life by his own admission, and especially in the ‘80’s with much less empowerment of immigrants to speak back to power.


63 posted on 12/04/2017 5:00:35 PM PST by erlayman (yw)
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To: Publius

My all time favorite is, Herbert Von Karajan. How I wanted to see him perform live.


64 posted on 12/04/2017 5:36:07 PM PST by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: bkopto

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Emily-Rooney-Show-854?episode=25627


65 posted on 12/20/2017 8:47:31 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Publius
One of my very best friends in the very early 70's was a voice major at Cleveland Institute of Music ... in fact she lived in the apartment right next to James Levine for a while, although they were not acquainted. She had a good male friend at the Institute who was studying composition and conducting. They got along famously ... did the summer opera camps together in Sante Fe and Wolf Trap, and voice studies at Julliard. After they left school, they decided to get married. We all thought everything was perfect. Then he got a job with a Midwest opera company and announced to her that he was gay, that he thought she had known all along, and that their marriage was really just a cover so they could both participate in the music world. She was devastated, of course. She confided in me that their sex life was infrequent, but she had assumed he was just a quirky musician.

She divorced him and became an alcoholic. Her life went downhill so fast, she couldn't handle the disappointment. Sadly, she developed MS and passed away at a relatively young age.

Life was so different then. I always ached for her

66 posted on 12/20/2017 9:10:01 PM PST by RightField
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