03 Jul Girl Ordered To Pay Her Ex-Boyfriend $265,000 After Faking A Rejection Letter From His Dream School

Relationships are complicated. Why? Because there is no way to predict what your head and heart will do when you’re in love. As they say, love is like a drug – one with an extensive and volatile list of side effects.

One of the most prominent side effects connected to love is jealousy; a potent emotion which should be regarded as lethal as any weapons of mass destruction currently being built in North Korea or Russia.

Take this guy, for example. He gave his girlfriend a list of rules to stop her from doing anything he didn’t like…

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Jealousy can turn even the sanest people into irrational creatures capable of anything. From Beyoncé, who threatened to “f*ck me up a b*tch” in her hit track ‘Hold Up’, which very publicly documented her husband’s infidelity, to Orlando Bloom who physically attacked Justin Bieber in an envy-induced rage after the singer revealed that he’d slept with the actor’s ex-wife, Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr.

Whilst these situations are certainly sensational, they can’t compare to what Eric Abramovitz experienced.

The student’s entire future was rewritten in one manic moment by his now ex-girlfriend.

Abramovitz, a talented clarinet player, had big plans to study at his dream school, the prestigious Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles.

Having already begun his bachelor’s degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, it was Abramovitz’s wish to complete it at Colburn.

However, he couldn’t afford the $50,000 a year for tuition and board.

Desperate not to give up on his dreams, Abramovitz put himself forward for a scholarship. He practiced relentlessly for his audition and felt positive that he had done everything he could to catch the attention of the scholarship board.

Winning the scholarship didn’t simply mean that Abramovitz’s wish would be fulfilled, but it also put him in the position of being able to get a high-paying symphony career once he’d graduated.

Not only that, but Abramovitz would also have been tutored by Yehuda Gilad, one of the most celebrated clarinet instructors in the world.

Only two students a year are accepted onto Colburn’s scholarship program, meaning that Abramovitz’s chances were incredibly slim.

Thankfully, Abramovitz made the cut.

Although, he wouldn’t discover this until several years later – by which point it was all too late.

You see, in 2014, Abramovitz received a rejection email from Colburn which ended his hopes of studying at the prestigious school.

The email appeared to have come directly from Yehuda Gilad himself, making Abramovitz believe that it was genuine.

“It was a disappointing feeling,” Abramovitz said. “I had such high hopes.”

Feeling deflated by the news, but still determined, Abramovitz continued his studies at McGill.

Then, two years later, Abramovitz applied for a graduate program at the University of Southern California – where, coincidentally, Yehuda Gilad also teaches.

At this point, Abramovitz believed he’d been rejected by Gilad. Equally, Gilad felt that he’d been rejected by Abramovitz.

This led to an awkward conversation between the two during Abramovitz’s USC audition.

Puzzled as to why Abramovitz would apply for the program when he’d rejected his tutorship two years ago, Gilad quizzed him. Confused, Abramovitz believed that Gilad had mistaken him for somebody else.

This situation perplexed Abramovitz, who pondered the possibility that he had actually been accepted after all.

Going back through his emails, he found the rejection letter and forwarded it to Gilad as proof that he’d been turned down.

That was when Gilad responded to say he’d never written that email. Suddenly, Abramovitz’s life took a turn…

“I knew I’d been had, but I was still far from knowing by who,” he explained.

Together with his friends, he turned detective. Shockingly, their investigations concluded that Abramovitz’s ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Lee, must have been responsible.

It transpired that Lee had seen Abramovitz’s acceptance email and deleted it from his inbox. She sent a response to Gilad, pretending to be Abramovitz, stating that the offer couldn’t be accepted because he planned “to be elsewhere”.

She then created a fake email account for Gilad (giladyehuda09@gmail.com) which she then used to email a rejection letter to Abramovitz.

Bizarrely, in the rejection letter, she offered Abramovitz a $5,000 scholarship for the University of Southern California – a consolation prize that stung Abramovitz even further at the time given that he couldn’t afford the $50,000 a year fees at USC, even with the $5,000 grant.

“It still puzzles me why she even added that,” Abramovitz said. “She knew it wouldn’t be realistic, so I had to turn that down even though it wasn’t real.”

Using his memory of her frequently used passwords, Abramovitz was able to access the fake email address that Lee had created. It was then that he discovered the account was connected to Lee’s cell phone.

“It was a simultaneous stab to the back and the heart,” Abramovitz said. “It really was the last person I would have wanted to find out it was.”

Despite the damage that this has done to Abramovitz’s trust and his future career, he has been able to get some reward from the situation – in the sum of $265,000.

Abramovitz filed a suit against Lee, who refused to respond to Abramovitz’s lawyers. As a result, Abramovitz won the case by default, for under Canadian law, a defendant in default “is deemed to admit the truth of all allegations of fact.”

That sum reflected damages, including loss of reputation, educational opportunity and two years of potential income. In addition, $37,000 of the total sum was added by the judge to satisfy Lee’s “despicable interference” in Abramovitz’s life.

The financial reward – which totaled a whopping $265,000 – is good enough for Abramovitz, who is now living happily with a new girlfriend.

“We are coming up on two years soon and it is a really healthy relationship with trust and honesty,” Abramovitz said. “I’d like to think my judgment of character has improved a little bit.”

He doesn’t “harbor any ill feelings” towards his ex-girlfriend, who still hasn’t explained her actions.

“Despite what happened I think I landed on my feet and the trajectory I’m on is still what I wanted for myself,” he said.

There are few people who could feel the same way in such a situation, so let us applaud Abramovitz for his truly great character and wish him the very best for the future!

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