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 scheme.
Rubin, 70, brazenly memorialized his twisted sexual deviances in missives exchanged with 45-year-old staffer Jennifer Powers and others — including some of his alleged victims — giddily bragging about his love of hurting women, court papers charged.
Here are some of the sickening messages revealed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors as Rubin and Powers were hit with a 10-count indictment:
‘Did you shock her?’
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.
The dedicated sidekick — who had worked for Rubin since 2011 — sent a sickening reply, the feds charged.
“I can only imagine what you did to her on that cross!!! Did you shock her p—y??” Powers allegedly wrote.
Rubin allegedly replied that he had, but bemoaned the fact that his electrocution device was losing strength, according to court papers.
‘She’ll do anything!’
Other messages showed how the famed money manager appeared to revel in the pain he allegedly inflicted on the women — many of whom needed cash badly, prosecutors said.
In 2014, one of his alleged victims told Rubin she would take “plenty of Valium” to endure a BDSM session, noting how she was “desperate” for money and in a “really tough” spot, including sleeping on a couch.
Rubin later told an unnamed co-conspirator that the woman hated “submissive but she’s brokke [sic] and says she’ll do anything!”
“She hates it, but she’s soooo desperate!!” he wrote, according to the feds. “We’ve got to make her cry!!!”
‘I don’t care if she screams’
In another message from 2016, ahead of a threesome with two women, Rubin allegedly told one of them that he wanted to “abuse” the other for hours, prosecutors said.
“I don’t care if she screams,” he allegedly wrote, along with a laughing face emoji. “This is going to be fun!”
When the woman told Rubin she was ready, he callously shot back in a typo-filled missive, “Ur not, bbut ur desperate and thts good,” the feds alleged.
‘It got very rough’
Prosecutors said Rubin and the woman then allegedly went on to brutalize the gagged victim, punching her breasts and head.
She eventually was able to free herself enough to bite his finger, the feds said.
After, he chillingly told Powers to tread lightly with the victim, court papers show.
“It got very rough jenn, we need to be VERY VERY VERY nice … Very important trust. Very important,” he allegedly wrote to his personal assistant.
Powers allegedly replied, “OK. I am being nice. I just hope you know what you’re doing.”
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’s Office.
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.
Neither Rubin nor Powers immediately entered a plea, and their respective attorneys didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
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