{"id":143152,"date":"2018-01-02T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143152"},"modified":"2018-01-02T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:59:09","slug":"leader-of-nyc-ballet-retiring-amid-misconduct-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/02\/leader-of-nyc-ballet-retiring-amid-misconduct-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader of NYC Ballet retiring amid misconduct investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143155\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/639px-Peter_Martins_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143155\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/639px-Peter_Martins_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Martins wrote a letter to the company's board of directors Monday announcing his retirement. (Photo By David Shankbone - David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0)\" width=\"639\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/639px-Peter_Martins_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg 639w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/639px-Peter_Martins_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Martins wrote a letter to the company&#8217;s board of directors Monday announcing his retirement. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=7873759\">(Photo By David Shankbone &#8211; David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The longtime leader of the New York City Ballet is retiring in the midst of an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct by him.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Martins wrote a letter to the company&#8217;s board of directors Monday announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old Martins told board members he continues to deny sexually harassing or abusing members of the company. He says he&#8217;s been the subject of news articles reporting largely anonymous and decades-old accusations.<\/p>\n<p>City Ballet announced last month Martins would take a leave of absence from the company and its School of American Ballet during an independent investigation. The company hired a law firm to conduct the investigation after receiving an anonymous letter accusing Martins of harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Board chairman Charles Scharf has thanked Martins for his contributions to the New York City Ballet but says the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The longtime leader of the New York City Ballet is retiring in the midst of an investigation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":143155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[41336,41335,37673],"class_list":["post-143152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-misconduct-investigation","tag-new-york-city-ballet","tag-peter-martins","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}