Suspended Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan, speaking at the 62nd Grammy Awards nomination event in New York in November. John Lamparski / WireImage Winners of the 62nd Grammy Awards will be announced Sunday night — but there’s a cloud hanging over the ceremony. Last week, Deborah Dugan, the recently installed president and CEO of the Recording Academy — which hands out the awards — was placed on administrative leave. Earlier this week, Dugan filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and vote rigging. The Recording Academy has been struggling for years with criticism that the Grammys were too male, too white, too old and too insular. In came Dugan five months ago, as the Academy’s first female leader. She pledged that the organization could do better, as she told NPR in an interview last month : “We’ve known as an industry for a long time that we have a monumental problem with gender
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