A victim of retired Big Apple financier Howard Rubin — who allegedly “tortured” former Playboy models and other women in a Midtown penthouse-turned-BDSM “sex dungeon” — celebrated his arrest and called the wait for justice a “complete nightmare.”
Rubin, who worked for years at George Soros’ investment firm, allegedly lured “dozens” of women to New York City between 2009 and 2019 — where he tied them up, beat and electrocuted them, the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.
“Relief. Relief. After eight years, finally a breath of relief,” one of Rubin’s accusers, who requested anonymity, told The Post of Rubin’s Friday arrest.
“It’s just been a complete nightmare. I’m relieved that justice is finally being acknowledged.”
When told Rubin, 70, was held without bail, she replied: “Oh my god, thank God.”
Rubin — known as “Howie” or “H” and worth at least tens of millions of dollars — has been accused of binding and gagging his drugged-up victims so they weren’t able to object to sexual torture.
Text messages with his assistant, Jennifer Powers, who is also facing sex-trafficking charges, detail some of the stomach-churning escapades, including one instance where they laughed about electrocuting a tied-up woman’s genitals.
“I don’t care if she screams,” he allegedly wrote, along with the laughing face emoji, in another sickening message, the feds said.
The allegations against Rubin first came to light in 2017, when he was taken to civil court by three Florida women who accused him of violent sexual assaults.
Two of those victims were described in court papers as Playboy Playmates Mia Lytell and Amy Moore, and a third, Stephanie Caldwell, identified as a model and a dancer.
It’s unclear what prompted the feds to move forward with the criminal case now, and his victims have been left questioning what took so long — especially as prosecutors brought other high-profile sex trafficking cases to court.
“It’s been incredible because we sit here and we watch Epstein and we watch Diddy and we are saying how did this happen so fast when it happened after us? Other people are getting their answers, but not us,” one of his alleged victims said.
FBI investigators allegedly told the woman that the arrest was delayed until the civil litigation played out so that Rubin’s testimony in the case could ultimately be used against him.
Prosecutors have since claimed that Rubin — who pleaded not guilty and was held without bail — admitted to flying women across state lines and paying them upwards of $5,000 for sex.
Authorities believe “dozens” of other women were recruited for sexual encounters with Rubin, and said at least 10 others were believed to have helped facilitate the sick schemes.
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