It wasn’t enough that he allegedly harassed her, trapped her into having sex with him and then called her a drug-addicted hooker.
Four months after being told by a federal judge to stop harassing a former staffer suing him for sexual harassment, Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey, 42, has continued to stalk Hanna Bouveng and has posted more lewd online comments about her, Manhattan federal court documents charge.
Wey’s latest “harassing and intimidating tactics” include hounding the 24-year-old Bouveng and her family in her native Sweden and writing at least a dozen new disgusting comments about her on Facebook and other Web sites, the papers said.
The efforts by the CEO of New York Global Communications are aimed at getting Bouveng to drop her $850 million lawsuit against him, says the woman’s lawyer, David Ratner, in an Oct. 24 letter to Judge Paul Gardephe.
Wey also is trying to “blackball” Bouveng from future employment, taint a potential jury and discourage potential witnesses from testifying against him, Ratner’s letter charges.
Bouveng, a former model, worked as Wey’s director of corporate communications for nearly a year before being canned in April.
She sued her “virulent sexual harasser and stalker” ex-boss in July, alleging that he fired her after she tried to repeatedly fend him off.
She claims that the CEO insisted on buying her “tight skirts” and “low-cut shirts” to wear while at the office and repeatedly creeped her out by making lewd sexual advances and remarks.
The pair had sex in December 2013 — but only after he “trapped her into a bedroom merger’’ by getting her drunk, the documents say.
Gardephe ripped the 42-year-old Wey in August for trying to ruin the 24-year-old Bouveng’s reputation by calling her a prostitute, “party girl” and drug and alcohol addict on Web sites including The Blot Magazine, which Wey oversees.
At the time, Gardephe stopped short of issuing an injunction, but demanded that Wey agree to be on his best behavior or be called back to court for a hearing where he could face stiff sanctions. At the end of August, the parties signed an agreement where Wey agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for each incident if he continued to post about Bouveng. Ratner now wants the financier and self-proclaimed “investigative journalist” — who specializes in Chinese corporate mergers — hauled into court so the judge can slap him with the fines.
Gardpehe has yet to respond.
Last week, Wey’s lawyers said in court papers that they believe that their client has a legal right to speak his mind.
“There is no precedent for suppressing such speech on the grounds that a hypothetical future jury might see it,” wrote his legal team, while not addressing whether their client’s remarks about Bouveng are accurate.