Playboy models ‘tortured’ in BDSM sex dungeon in NYC penthouse: feds

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A bizarre crime we see Playboy models were tortured in
a BDSM sex dungeon in NYC. In New York, Howard
Rubin and Jennifer Powers were charged Friday with sex trafficking
and transporting women to engage in commercial acts. Sex acts
that is, defendants allegedly spent about a million dollars of

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Ruben's fortune. It's Howard Ruben who's seventy to run the
operation from two thousand and nine to twenty nineteen that
included flying former Playboy models to New York City and
leasing a penthouse on West fifty seventh. One of the
soundproof rooms in the penthouse was turned into a sex
dungeon and was painted red and furnished with BDSM equipment,

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and it had devices that could shock or electrocute a person.
Some of the women consented to the encounters, but were
unaware how violent they could become. Some of the models
were injured or gagged during the sex encounters with Ruben,
including one woman whose breast implant flipped a side down
and required surgery to fix, and in still other instances,

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women became unconscious during the sexual encounters, so they were
unable to consent. Authority said women of the women were
paid five thousand dollars for the trysts with Ruben and
were required to sign blank non disclosures. Ruben was arrested
Friday and Connecticut Empowers was taken into custody in Texas.
As alleged the defendants used Reuben's well to mislead and

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recruit women to engage in commercial sex acts, where Reuben
then tortured women beyond their consent, causing lasting physical and
psychological pain and a wild story. That is so anyway,
that's that's