4 of financier Howard Rubin’s accusers instructed The Put up of the cruelty he allegedly inflicted on them and the way he stored a “trophy wall” of images in his intercourse den.
The multi-millionaire lured a number of ladies, together with Playboy fashions, to his Midtown penthouse for paid skilled picture shoots, in keeping with prosecutors.
Nonetheless, they declare he then became a “monster” who sadistically brutalized and raped them in his custom-built torture chamber.
“He will get gratification — sexual and in any other case — from cruelty,” one of many sources mentioned in an interview with The Put up.
“It isn’t solely bodily torture; he retains utilizing his cash, energy and the authorized system to regulate and harm folks.”
“I simply wish to really feel protected once more and know that everybody accountable is held accountable.”
Rubin — price tens of thousands and thousands — and his assistant Jennifer Powers stand accused of working a $1 million bondage and masochism sex-trafficking scheme between 2009 and 2019. The indictment in opposition to them listed 10 accusers as Jane Does, however federal prosecutorTara McGrath, mentioned at Rubin’s arraignment there have been dozens extra victims and accomplices not named in court docket papers.
The ladies who spoke to The Put up did so anonymously as they mentioned they nonetheless stay in concern of retribution in opposition to them, regardless that Rubin has been in jail since Sept. 26 and been denied bail twice.
They describe him as an “evil mastermind” who they concern will cease at nothing to break their lives, even from behind bars.
Most of the victims declare they have been recruited by way of a modeling web site or social media by Rubin’s assistant, Jennifer Powers, who would invite them to fulfill the multi-millionaire for dinner in Manhattan and participate in paid fetish picture shoots.
In some messages, Powers reassured some ladies who expressed considerations in regards to the picture shoot that Rubin was a wonderfully variety gentleman and that “no intercourse” was required, court docket paperwork present.
The ladies who spoke to The Put up mentioned Rubin introduced nicely over dinner the place, in hindsight, they consider he “profiled” them as potential victims.
As soon as in his penthouse they noticed what gave the impression to be “a sufferer wall”, during which Rubin displayed framed images of assorted Playboy fashions he claimed to have “seen” within the dungeon.
“Throughout within the rental while you stroll in, the partitions are lined with photographs of fashions from Playboy. I acknowledged quite a lot of these ladies. A few of them I appeared as much as once I was simply beginning my profession,” mentioned one in all his accusers.
“[Rubin said] all the photographs have been ladies he had ‘seen’, who had been there earlier than.
“It’s like these have been his trophies.”
As soon as contained in the $18,000-a-month penthouse at Metropolitan Tower Condominium on 57th Avenue, the ladies have been requested to signal a nondisclosure settlement which threatened a $500,000 penalty in the event that they ever spoke about their encounters.
Then Rubin would abruptly “flip evil” and the abuse would start, in keeping with the accusers who spoke to The Put up.
“Hurting ladies is simply one thing that he wished to do and liked,” one other one in all his accusers mentioned.
Federal prosecutors accuse Rubin of luring “dozens” of girls to his condominium, the place he allegedly tied them up, electrocuted them with a cattle prod, savagely beat them with closed fists, and continued to sexually abuse them after they misplaced consciousness.
His accusers declare they have been restrained in opposition to their wills, tied to an X-shaped “St. Andrew’s cross,” drugged, gagged and overwhelmed by Rubin, whose bondage room was also referred to as “the crimson room.”
Rubin plotted the ache he would inflict on victims in textual content messages with co-conspirators, and recounted the occasions to Powers, prosecutors allege.
As soon as a high-flying dealer at Solomon Brothers and for George Soros’ funding agency, Rubin is at present locked up within the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn on expenses together with intercourse trafficking.
A letter written by Rubin’s then-wife, Mary Henry, during which she described him as “a household man,” to the court docket final week prompted a lot of his alleged victims to lastly converse out.
“That tipped me over the sting,” one in all his accusers mentioned.
Henry, 74, filed for divorce from Rubin in 2021. Nonetheless, the pair nonetheless assist deal with their grandkids and attend household occasions along with their three grownup youngsters, she wrote in a letter urging the decide to spring the retired bond dealer on a $50 million bail bundle.
“Her providing [millions] for his launch made me sick and offended,” one in all Rubin’s accusers mentioned.
“She [wrote] about him taking grandchildren to swim classes whereas the ladies he brutalized are nonetheless dwelling in concern.
“It’s merciless and I can’t perceive how anybody may defend that.”
Rubin break up his time between his household, who lived close by, and the ladies he allegedly trafficked into his penthouse intercourse dungeon, prosecutors mentioned. In a 2015 electronic mail trade, he made mild of sleeping along with his alleged confederate Powers on his marital mattress.
“By the point we go to the Rockettes, dinner and dungeon, it is going to be 2am — so it’s simpler to inform Mary I’m away reasonably than are available so late,” he wrote in a Jan. 21, 2015, electronic mail to Powers, in keeping with a submitting by prosecutors Sunday.
“I in all probability see 5 ladies the week of the sixteenth!! Besides the sixteenth is vacation and my anniversary!” he wrote in one other electronic mail to Powers in August 2015.
Prosecutors efficiently argued Rubin ought to be denied bail, partly citing proof he sought a hitman to focus on ladies who beforehand sued him in a civil case. In addition they cited his wealth and mentioned he’s a flight threat.
Allegations in opposition to Rubin first got here to mild in 2017, when he was taken to civil court docket by a number of Florida-based ladies who accused him of violent sexual assaults in New York. He was additionally sued in Brooklyn federal court docket in 2022.
A jury discovered Rubin answerable for thousands and thousands of {dollars}, however cleared Powers at a 2022 civil trial in Brooklyn.
“This isn’t nearly one man. It’s a few system that enables predators to re-offend whereas survivors are left to piece their lives again collectively,” one in all his accusers instructed The Put up.
“Since our case first got here to mild in 2017 we now have lived within the shadow of a person who believed his wealth, energy, and connections made him untouchable … The system didn’t cease him. It allowed him to maintain going.
“I’ve lived in concern for years,” one in all his accusers mentioned.
Rubin has pleaded not responsible to the felony expenses and is being held with out bail.
Powers, who now lives in Texas, has additionally pleaded not responsible and is free on bail after posting an $850,000 bond.
Attorneys for each Rubin and Powers didn’t return The Put up’s requests for remark.
Though justice could also be close to, Rubin’s alleged victims say their lives have been completely altered by his actions.
“I not often depart dwelling, and once I do I’m anxious as a result of I by no means really really feel protected. The isolation and concern have taken my peace and most of my belief in folks and within the authorized system.
“It’s exhausting to at all times be on alert, by no means certain what may occur subsequent,” mentioned one.
