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Sexual Assault Claim Against Conductor Dutoit Is Credible, Boston Symphony Says

The orchestra launched an independent investigation into an accusation made by one of its former interns. She is one of ten women to publicly accuse Dutoit of sexual misconduct.
Charles Dutoit, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2010.

On Friday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced that an independent investigation into a sexual assault claim made against conductor Charles Dutoit by one of its former interns has found the woman's claim credible.

The accusation that triggered the BSO investigation came from a woman named Fiona Allan, who at the time of the alleged assault in 1997 was working as an

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