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Ex-Real Estate and current Ducktails musician has been accused of “unacceptable treatment of women”
Real Estate‘s former guitarist Matt Mondanile – also known for his solo project Ducktails – has issued a response to allegations of sexual misconduct.
The New Jersey indie band parted ways with Mondanile in May 2016, with a statement at the time suggesting that Mondanile was “focusing on his own Ducktails project”. However, Mondanile’s former band recently released a new statement saying that they “fired” the guitarist due to his alleged “unacceptable treatment of women”. SPIN later published a detailed account of multiple women alleging that Mondanile had been sexually inappropriate towards them.
Mondanile had initially told Pitchfork that he had “done nothing wrong at all”. Now the musician’s lawyers have issued a full statement to Pitchfork, saying that he is “endlessly sorry for my inappropriate behaviour”. Mondanile continues to “apologise to everyone and anyone who was affected by this” and say that he “never intended to hurt anyone emotionally or otherwise”.
The statement also claims that “much of what has been written and talked about is false and defamatory” and reveals that Real Estate and Mondanile had signed a “leaving agreement” that “prohibits both him and the band members from making any negative or derogatory statements about the other”. The band are accused of “violating” the terms of the agreement by “protecting themselves by sidestepping the controversy to protect the band’s commercial viability”.
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You can read the statement in full below:
Recently, there have been allegations and articles circulating regarding Musician Matthew Mondanile’s past conduct toward women. This statement, issued through his attorneys, is intended as a general response to what has been…
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