Twisted financier Howard Rubin has a “fixation” with “Fifty Shades of Gray” — and even based mostly his infamous ‘dungeon room’ on the film.
The retired banker, deemed to be value over $50 million in courtroom papers, transformed a room in his Central Park Penthouse to be solely crimson and full of intercourse toys, similar to the 2015 Jamie Dornan and Dakota Fanning erotic thriller, based mostly on the novel by author EL James.
That room is the place he’s mentioned by prosecutors to have enticed fashions “with guarantees of money, fancy dinners, and first-class airline tickets,” earlier than subjecting them to sadistic sexual abuse and torture — resulting in the federal expenses he’s now in jail awaiting trial on.
“Borne out of his fixation with the film ‘Fifty Shades of Gray’ a number of the plaintiffs referred to the dungeon because the ‘crimson room’ as a result of Rubin painted the partitions of the room crimson,” courtroom papers from a separate civil case towards Rubin acknowledged.
“Rubin adorned the partitions of his dungeon with whips, chains, ropes, dildos, and sexual units, together with a big X-shaped machine … and a restraint machine to which a girl could possibly be affixed on all fours,” the papers added.
Within the “Fifty Shades of Gray” film and its sequels — that are works of fiction — Johson performs character Anastasia Steele, a school graduate seduced by highly effective enterprise Christian Gray, performed by Dornan, who introduces her to his fetishistic wishes, carried out in his personal ‘crimson room’.
Rubin and his assistant, Jennier Powers, are each charged with intercourse trafficking and transporting ladies to have interaction in business intercourse acts between 2009 and 2019. Each have pleaded not responsible and Rubin has been denied bail as he’s deemed a flight threat.
The civil trial lastly concluded final week with a decide ruling Rubin has to pay $3.85 million to 6 plaintiffs, all anonymously listed as Jane Does within the courtroom proceedings.
One of many victims mentioned she “broke down in tears” on the verdict and added in a press release to The Put up: “It was as if a weight I’ve carried for thus a few years was lastly lifted. This ruling offers me hope that I can lastly begin to discover peace and therapeutic … it reassures me that my voice continues to be heard.”
A few of the plaintiffs within the civil case are additionally believed to be concerned within the legal case.
Rubin doesn’t deny that he had contracts and BDSM sexual relations with quite a few ladies, however the legal case towards him facilities on how the issues he allegedly did to them, together with inflicting lasting bodily hurt, went far past what that they had consented to.
Attorneys for Rubin didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
He’s additionally accused of “threatening the ladies with authorized penalties and public shaming in the event that they sought authorized recourse,” in line with the indictment towards him.
Attorneys for Rubin didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
The civil case additionally sheds mild on a number of the issues prone to be included at Rubin and Powers’ trial.
Most of the particulars are too graphic to publish, however describe a sample of excessive abusive habits.
In a single occasion Rubin — a father of three — employed one lady to accompany him and his buddies to a strip membership. There he rented a personal room, handcuffed the lady and verbally berated her, then began to “beat her together with his fists after which started penetrating her,” inflicting them each to be thrown out, in line with the courtroom data.
The civil trial detailed how Rubin “actively recruited ladies who had been uneducated, financially dependent, and victims of childhood abuse,” and provided cocaine, alcohol, Vicodin, Percocet, and oxycodone to them, then subjected them to vital psychological and bodily abuse.
The jury discovered Rubin escalated his wicked sexual habits “solely after plaintiffs grew comfy and financially dependent upon him” and though that they had agreed to sure “business intercourse encounters,” they “didn’t have interaction on this later conduct voluntarily.”
In a single textual content message which was a part of the civil trial, Rubin boasted about his paid conquests.
He claimed: “I’ve been with loads of women, together with two Playmate centerfolds, Penthouse pet, Playboy lingerie cowl woman, Maxim mannequin of the yr, Hustler cowl woman, and Maxim and Playgirl and FHM fashions.”
