{"id":257172,"date":"2025-09-26T22:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:37:16","slug":"read-sickening-messages-between-ex-nyc-financier-howard-rubin-and-his-personal-assistant-as-pair-celebrate-hurting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257172\/","title":{"rendered":"Read sickening messages between ex-NYC financier Howard Rubin and his personal assistant as pair celebrate hurting women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disturbing text messages between accused BDSM-crazed tycoon Howard Rubin and his longtime personal assistant were laid bare Friday as federal prosecutors charged the pair with a decade-long sex-trafficking <\/a>scheme. <\/p>\n

Rubin<\/a>, 70, brazenly memorialized his twisted sexual deviances in missives exchanged with 45-year-old staffer Jennifer Powers and others \u2014 including some of his alleged victims \u2014 giddily bragging about his love of hurting women, court papers charged.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the sickening messages revealed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors as Rubin and Powers were hit with a 10-count indictment:<\/p>\n

Howie Rubin attends Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation\u2019s 17th Annual Collaborating For A Cure Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on November 24, 2014 in New York City. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u2018Did you shock her?\u2019<\/p>\n

In one horrifying exchange in 2015, when the retired financier Rubin allegedly told Powers that he had his way with a woman tied up to a cross.<\/p>\n

The dedicated sidekick \u2014 who had worked for Rubin since 2011 \u2014 sent a sickening reply, the feds charged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only imagine what you did to her on that cross!!! Did you shock her p\u2014y??\u201d Powers allegedly wrote.<\/p>\n

Rubin allegedly replied that he had, but bemoaned the fact that his electrocution device was losing strength, according to court papers.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019ll do anything!\u2019<\/p>\n

Exterior shots of 146 W 57th Street on Billionaires Row, Manhattan. Taidgh Barron\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Other messages showed how the famed money manager appeared to revel in the pain he allegedly inflicted on the women \u2014 many of whom needed cash badly, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

In 2014, one of his alleged victims told Rubin she would take \u201cplenty of Valium\u201d to endure a BDSM session, noting how she was \u201cdesperate\u201d for money and in a \u201creally tough\u201d spot, including sleeping on a couch.<\/p>\n

Rubin later told an unnamed co-conspirator that the woman hated \u201csubmissive but she\u2019s brokke [sic] and says she\u2019ll do anything!\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Eichel, Howie Rubin and Jeff Mayer attend Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation\u2019s 17th Annual Collaborating For A Cure Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on November 24, 2014 in New York City. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cShe hates it, but she\u2019s soooo desperate!!\u201d he wrote, according to the feds. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make her cry!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t care if she screams\u2019<\/p>\n

In another message from 2016, ahead of a threesome with two women, Rubin allegedly told one of them that he wanted to \u201cabuse\u201d the other for hours, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care if she screams,\u201d he allegedly wrote, along with a laughing face emoji. \u201cThis is going to be fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

When the woman told Rubin she was ready, he callously shot back in a typo-filled missive, \u201cUr not, bbut ur desperate and thts good,\u201d the feds alleged.<\/p>\n

\u2018It got very rough\u2019<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Rubin and the woman then allegedly went on to brutalize the gagged victim, punching her breasts and head. <\/p>\n

She eventually was able to free herself enough to bite his finger, the feds said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After, he chillingly told Powers to tread lightly with the victim, court papers show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt got very rough jenn, we need to be VERY VERY VERY nice \u2026 Very important trust. Very important,\u201d he allegedly wrote to his personal assistant.<\/p>\n

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

Powers allegedly replied, \u201cOK. I am being nice. I just hope you know what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The depraved pair were busted Friday, Rubin at his home in Connecticut and Powers in Texas, over the sick scheme, which lasted between 2009 and 2019, according to the Brooklyn US Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

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They are accused of luring numerous women to the Big Apple under false pretenses before Rubin allegedly tortured them at luxury hotels and in a penthouse-turned-sex dungeon.<\/p>\n

Neither Rubin nor Powers immediately entered a plea, and their respective attorneys didn\u2019t immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disturbing text messages between accused BDSM-crazed tycoon Howard Rubin and his longtime personal assistant were laid bare Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,39799,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,18114,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-257172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn-federal-court","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sex-trafficking","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272997434561298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257172","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=257172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}