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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

The Hollywood crisis #MeToo missed: ‘Every female composer has been through it’

illustration of women at piano while man sits in background holding award, with drink glass beside him
Film scoring industry veterans describe toxic conditions, from sexual harassment to the refusal of credit for their work. Illustration: Lola Beltran/The Guardian

In the wake of the #MeToo movement that toppled Harvey Weinstein and made the entertainment industry tremble, an up-and-coming musician named Nomi Abadi vowed to expose one of Hollywood’s last dirty secrets: the toxic, abusive work conditions that run rampant behind the closed doors of soundtrack composing studios.

Abadi, a former child piano prodigy turned singer and composer, was a sexual abuse survivor and knew of many others in a part of the industry where men still vastly outnumber women and much of the work goes on unregulated at all hours of the day and night.

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