Beaverton rehab closes amid sexual misconduct allegations against its founder

Taylor Made Retreat, an addiction rehab program operating out of a repurposed Beaverton mansion since 2018, closed earlier this summer amid allegations of sexual misconduct against its manager and founder, former concert promoter Lowell MacGregor.

In a voicemail greeting posted on the show’s main phone line, MacGregor says his board of directors disbanded the nonprofit. The 6,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home was put on the market a month ago with an asking price of nearly $3 million.

It is unclear why the program was shut down. In a series of posts on Facebook last month, MacGregor alluded to both financial hardship and “human frailty”.

But a lawsuit filed yesterday in Multnomah County Circuit Court offers a more detailed account of the events that allegedly led to the closure. In it, MacGregor is accused by an unnamed woman, and former client of the show in 2021, of “sexually manipulating and grooming her”.

“MacGregor singled out (the woman), along with another young and vulnerable woman at the rehabilitation center, to satisfy his selfish needs for attention and sexual gratification,” the legal complaint says. She accuses MacGregor of sexual assault and her nonprofit of negligence and fraud, and is seeking $4.5 million.

MacGregor, in a series of emails with WW, he said he was shocked by the allegations and called the situation “a nightmare”. An attorney, Bracken McKey, was later contacted WW said he was representing MacGregor and his client had no comment.

MacGregor led a successful career as a music promoter, booking shows for the Roseland and later touring with Pearl Jam in the early 2000s, before focusing on Christian festivals and revival addiction

He bought the Beaverton property, which was built by a former smuggler and is known to locals as the Walker Road Castle, and opened the rehab in 2018. The show’s website boasts that Jack Healey, the renowned civil rights activist humans, it’s on their board.

But the lawsuit alleges that MacGregor used the program to take advantage of a young woman.

The unnamed plaintiff in the case says she entered the program after being released from a local hospital after blowing a blood alcohol level of .455 on a breathalyzer. MacGregor picked her up personally in his car.

Months later, while she was in the middle of a 12-step program, he told her he loved her and had sex with her on a road trip to visit her parents in Idaho, according to the lawsuit. He told her not to tell anyone until she had left the show. When she did, the two moved into an apartment together and MacGregor became abusive, the suit says.

He moved in 2022 and later relapsed. During that time, MacGregor sent her a letter admitting many of the allegations, saying she had breached her professional obligations and “feared our relationship would sink TMR and perhaps more importantly, ruin my reputation,” at lega demand

After first disclosing her experience to a friend in 2024, the woman began to see the relationship “in a new light” and realized that MacGregor had repeatedly sexually assaulted her, the legal complaint says.

The complaint also names Taylor Made Retreat as a defendant, alleging the nonprofit was negligent in failing to prevent the assaults. “Taylor Made knew, or at least recklessly ignored the truth, that MacGregor was dangerous to female patients,” she says.