A retired Big Apple financier who worked for years at George Soros'
investment firm allegedly "tortured" former Playboy models and other
women in a Midtown penthouse-turned-BDSM "sex dungeon" for about a
decade, federal prosecutors said.
Howard Rubin, 70, was
busted by the feds at his Fairfield, Conn., home Friday morning on
sex-trafficking charges for allegedly luring "dozens" of women to New
York City between 2009 and 2019 — where he restrained, beat and electrocuted them, the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office said.
The
famed former money manager - known as "Howie" or "H" and worth at least
tens of millions of dollars - even appeared to revel in the
stomach-turning encounters in text messages with his personal assistant,
Jennifer Powers, who is also facing sex-trafficking charges tied to the
scheme.
"As alleged, the defendants used Rubin's wealth to mislead and recruit women to engage in commercial sex acts, where Rubin then tortured women beyond their consent, causing lasting physical and/or psychological pain, in some cases physical injuries," Brooklyn US Attorney Joseph Nocella said in a statement.
Rubin — a dad of three and successful ex-Wall Street financier with a 30-year career — allegedly abused
the women in swanky city hotels and a luxury penthouse near Central
Park that he leased for $18,000 a month between 2011 and 2017, court
papers state.
One of the West 57th
Street penthouse bedrooms was soundproofed and painted red — nicknamed
"The Dungeon" — and had a device that was used to shock or electrocute
the women, the feds said. [...]
The feds said he hid behind his wealth for decades as he allegedly carried out the sickening abuse — even sending giddy texts to his longtime personal assistant about his love of hurting women.
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