Harvard Loses Another Major Donor as Congress and the National Press Dig Into President Claudine Gay’s Past ‘Plagiarism’
The Boston Globe, the New York Times, and CNN are just some of the outlets that have verified the allegations.
As Harvard University leadership reels from a steady drip of disclosures that President Claudine Gay plagiarized key parts of her scholarship, a major financial backer and alumnus, Leonard Blavatnik, has paused donations to the school. It comes as the accusations of plagiarism against Ms. Gay — first levied by conservative journalists — have now been verified, to varying degrees, by national media outlets.
Mr. Blavatnik is a Ukrainian-American who earned his masters of business administration at Harvard and made his nearly $30 billion fortune in natural resources following the fall of the Soviet Union. Bloomberg first reported that Mr. Blavatnik will pause donations after giving as much as $270 million in recent decades.
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