Carnegie Hall’s chairman is waging open warfare on the prestigious Manhattan music institution’s executive director and its board of trustees.
Billionaire business titan Ronald Perelman, 72, who became the hall’s chairman in February, has accused the iconic venue’s executive director of improper financial management and its board of poor oversight, according to a report.
In an e-mail to members of Carnegie Hall’s board of trustees on Wednesday, Perelman, chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes, made allegations about a “lack of transparency” in operating the concert hall.
His accusations, made earlier this summer, prompted the brief suspension of executive director Clive Gillinson, he wrote.
In the letter, Perelman said that in the spring, he discovered “a troubling lack of transparency and openness in the way Clive Gillinson was interacting with me and the Board,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Perelman and Gillinson could not be reached for comment. Carnegie Hall did not immediately return requests seeking comment.