Notorious sex fiend Peter Braunstein made it easy for New York’s Parole Board to deny his first chance at freedom last week.
The former fashion magazine writer-turned-sexual torturer refused to sit for his Aug. 19 hearing with the panel, which took place without him.
The 16-member panel read a letter from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office prior to deliberating. The letter urged them to keep the 61-year-old former Women’s Wear Daily journo locked up inside the Wende Correctional Facility, outside Buffalo.
“He has shown himself to be a determined, angry, and vengeful man,” reads the July 25 letter, composed by senior council Maxine Rosenthal. “Time and again, he has demonstrated that he is a danger to society, and he has clearly and repeatedly stated that should he be released from prison, he will continue to be a danger to society.”
Rosenthal, who was part of the team that prosecuted Braunstein, said the notorious sex predator has never shown remorse for his actions, either in court or media interviews. She referenced a 2009 letter, in which Braunstein wrote, “I regret the choice of victim, but not the crime itself.”
He also wrote in the letter “the crime was justified.”
Braunstein sexually brutalized a co-worker he’d grown obsessed with. He set a fire outside the victim’s Chelsea apartment on Halloween night in 2005, and gained access to her home by posing as a responding fireman.
He then chloroformed the 36-year-old woman, drugged her, stripped her naked, bound her, and sexually assaulted her over more than 13 hellish hours. Her name is being withheld by The Post.
He scrawled a mocking note on her mirror: “Bye — Hope things turn around for U soon.” He also videotaped the savage sexual abuse.
He then went on the run, and tried killing himself as police closed in on him two months later in Tennessee. He was arrrested on Dec. 16, 2025, and convicted of kidnapping, sexual abuse, robbery, and burglary on May 23, 2007.
A judge sentenced him to 18 years.
Braunstein’s next appearance before the board is scheduled for 2027, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
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