{"id":256760,"date":"2025-09-26T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256760\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:51:11","slug":"howard-rubin-arrested-for-allegedly-sex-trafficking-women-to-sex-dungeon-penthouse-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256760\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Rubin arrested for allegedly sex-trafficking women to ‘sex dungeon’ penthouse: feds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A retired Big Apple financier\u00a0with past ties to George Soros<\/a>\u00a0allegedly \u201ctortured\u201d former Playboy models and other women in a Midtown penthouse-turned-soundproofed BDSM \u201csex dungeon\u201d for years, federal prosecutors said Friday.<\/p>\n

Howard Rubin, 70, was arrested by federal authorities at his home in Fairfield, Ct., Friday morning on charges he sex-trafficked at least 10 women\u00a0between 2009 and 2019, luring them\u00a0to swanky New York City hotels and the leased luxury pad near Central Park \u2014 where he restrained, beat and electrically shocked them, the Brooklyn US Attorney\u2019s Office charged.<\/p>\n

The famed former money manager \u2014 known as \u201cHowie\u201d or \u201cH\u201d and worth at least tens of millions of dollars \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

Retired NYC financier Howard Rubin \u201ctortured women beyond their consent\u201d in his twisted penthouse sex dungeon, according to prosecutors. Sylvain Gaboury\/PMC<\/p>\n

Rubin\u2019s longtime wife, Mary J. Henry,\u00a0filed for divorce from him in 2021 after the bombshell allegations surfaced. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAs alleged, the defendants used Rubin\u2019s 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,\u201d Brooklyn US Attorney Joseph Nocella said in a statement.<\/p>\n

One of the West 57th Street penthouse bedrooms was soundproofed and painted red, and had a device that was used to shock or electrocute the women, the feds said.\u00a0The\u00a0room also had a cross and bed with restraints where the women would be bound and gagged, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n

In one horrifying exchange, Rubin allegedly texted Powers that he tied a woman to the cross, with the assistant replying, \u201cI can only imagine what you\u00a0did to her on that cross!!! Did you shock her p\u2014y??,\u201d the feds said.<\/p>\n

Rubin allegedly replied he did, but complained that his electrocution device was \u201closing strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

While some of the women agreed to a safe word that they could use with Rubin when the sex was getting too rough, he allegedly ignored their pleas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others were gagged so they couldn\u2019t object, and he would even continue if a woman passed out, prosecutors alleged.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In another disturbing incident, Rubin, before a planned sex session with two women, told one of them that he wanted to \u201cabuse\u201d the other for hours, the feds alleged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Billionaire George Soros in January 2020. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care if she screams,\u201d he wrote, along with the laughing face emoji, the feds said.<\/p>\n

At one point, he was so violent with that woman that her breast implant flipped, and when she complained to Rubin, he sent her tens of thousands of dollars to fix it, the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n

He tried to convince another alleged victim that rape was natural and referenced Disney movies like \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d the feds claimed.<\/p>\n

Rubin also had a stash of nondisclosure agreements he kept in a safe that he forced the women to sign, the feds charged.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Howard Rubin\u2019s indictment stating the ex-financier allegedly recruited dozens of women to engage in commercial sex acts with him involving BDSM. US District Court E.D.N.Y.<\/p>\n

Powers was allegedly instrumental in finding the women \u2014 mostly through social media \u2014 and flying them into New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many of the women targeted were former Playboy models, the feds said in a letter demanding Rubin be detained.<\/p>\n

After the sexual encounters, Rubin or Powers allegedly paid the victims through a wire transfer or PayPal and Venmo, but staggered the payments to avoid sending $10,000 in a single shot, allowing them to remain under the radar, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

A page of the indictment with the victims listed and the alleged dates of abuse. US District Court E.D.N.Y.<\/p>\n

Overall, it\u2019s estimated at least $1 million of Rubin\u2019s money was spent on the alleged sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

Disturbing allegations against Rubin were first leveled in lawsuits dating back nearly a decade. It\u2019s unclear what prompted the feds to move forward with the criminal case now.<\/p>\n

Rubin\u2019s longtime wife Mary J. Henry\u00a0filed for divorce from him in 2021<\/a>\u00a0after he was accused of sexual abuse in the suits.<\/p>\n

Rubin \u2014\u00a0a\u00a0Wall Street high roller who has managed money for the Soros Fund and worked for Salomon Brothers \u2014\u00a0was set to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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He and Powers, who was arrested in Texas, are both facing charges of sex trafficking and transporting women in interstate commerce for sex acts.<\/p>\n

Rubin was also hit with a federal bank fraud charge for allegedly offering misrepresentations made to a bank while financing Powers\u2019 mortgage for a house in Texas she shared with her husband.\u00a0 Rubin was\u00a0taken to civil court in 2017<\/a>\u00a0after a number of women accused him of violent sexual assaults.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He lost the case in 2022 when a jury awarded\u00a0seven\u00a0plaintiffs hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u00a0The total judgment against Rubin at that trial was $4.47 million.<\/p>\n

The judge granted the plaintiff\u2019s request for Rubin to pay all their legal fees \u2014 at a cost of a cool $4.8 million \u2014 this February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He appealed both decisions, which are pending,\u00a0but was forced to post bonds for nearly $10 million while those cases play out.<\/p>\n

Rubin\u2019s defense attorney in the criminal case didn\u2019t immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retired Big Apple financier\u00a0with past ties to George Soros\u00a0allegedly \u201ctortured\u201d former Playboy models and other women in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11307,125773,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,18114,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-256760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrests","10":"tag-george-soros","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sex-trafficking","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272108175730790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}