Four men have accused Levine of sexually molesting them (three when they were underage, and one when he was as young as 16 years of age), from the 1960s to the 1990s.
On December 2, 2017, it was revealed publicly that a police report—dating from October 2016—detailed that Levine had allegedly sexually molested a male teenager for years.The alleged sexual abuse began while Levine was guest conductor at the Ravinia Festival, outside Chicago, where Levine was music director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer residencies from 1973 to 1993
