Former Soros Fund manager Howard Rubin is facing a March 2020 trial date for a lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court filed on behalf of six women accusing the financier of abusing them in a “dungeon” — one of several suits pending against Rubin in New York courts.
Brooklyn federal Judge Brian Cogan last week set a March 16, 2020 trial date.
The plaintiffs — some of whom have modeled for Playboy — allege in the suit that Rubin wooed them with dates and paid photoshoots.
But after they came to his Manhattan penthouse, they allege Rubin sexually assaulted and seriously injured them in a BDSM-themed “dungeon” where he allegedly kept ropes, toys, electrocuting devices and other implements.
Other women have made similar claims in lawsuits filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The Brooklyn federal court suit was first filed in 2017 on behalf of three women. One of those plaintiffs has since dropped out, but last month, attorneys added four additional women to the case with their own allegations against Rubin.
One of the newly-added plaintiffs claims that in 2015, Rubin propped her up onto his pool table and stuck a pool cue into her vagina against her will. She also alleges Rubin then tied her up and repeatedly punched her in the face.
Another one of the women, who also modeled in Playboy, claims she went on a date with Rubin sometime in 2015 or 2016 and, after he got her “very drunk,” then “forced her to take oxycodone,” the suit alleges.
The woman ended up in Rubin’s “dungeon” in his penthouse, she claims, where Rubin tied her up, whipped her and kicked her in the groin, the suit alleges.
“I love it when you cry,” Rubin allegedly said, per the suit.
Rubin allegedly paid the woman $5,000 after the encounter.
She claims she became hooked on oxycodone, and saw him several more times but endured more physical abuse — in one instance, being beaten so badly that one of her buttocks implants ruptured, the suit alleges.
Edward McDonald, who represents Rubin in the case, said the plaintiffs are “professional escorts who are shamelessly exploiting the judicial system to extort Mr. Rubin for consensual sexual encounters.”
“Several of the women repeatedly solicited Mr. Rubin for return encounters and even recruited their friends,” he said. “Mr. Rubin will be vindicated in the face of this web of lies and malicious allegations.”
John Balestiere, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said in an email: “We and our all six plaintiffs are looking very forward to presenting the evidence to a jury in Brooklyn for them to decide this case.”