The private assistant to Wall Avenue multimillionaire Howard Rubin and her husband face tax fraud expenses, with federal authorities alleging the pair did not disclose the “sex dungeon” financier funded each side of their lives, together with the mortgage on their Texas dwelling.
Jennifer Powers and her husband Stephen had been hit Tuesday with the fees in a brand new superseding indictment, simply days after Rubin and his assistant had been busted with bombshell intercourse trafficking expenses final week.
The feds allege Powers served as Rubin’s proper hand in a twisted plot to psychologically and sexually brutalize a number of girls in his Midtown penthouse, and that she and her husband allegedly reaped roughly $9 million — with Rubin paying for lease on their Manhattan condominium, non-public faculty for his or her youngsters, their bank card payments and the down-payment and mortgage funds on their Texas dwelling after they moved in 2020.
Howard Rubin’s Midtown condominium. (Google)
In accordance with the indictment, Jennifer Powers reported no earnings from employment in 2018 by 2023, and Stephen Powers reported lower than $40,000 in earnings from his DJ enterprise in 2018 and 2019 — and no earnings from that enterprise from 2020 to 2023. They didn’t declare any of the cash Rubin gave them over time, the feds allege.
Rubin additionally paid Jennifer Powers’ authorized charges concerning civil litigation involving the financier’s alleged intercourse trafficking, courtroom papers allege.
Jennifer Powers, who was launched on a private recognizance bond after an look in federal courtroom in Texas, is ready to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Courtroom on Wednesday. Stephen Powers can be arraigned at a later date.
Jennifer Powers was a key participant in all points of Rubin’s intercourse abuse operation, based on courtroom filings, and allegedly helped him furnish the soundproof, locked “dungeon” within the second bed room of his penthouse condominium close to Central Park.
On July 30, 2012, the feds allege she e-mailed Rubin in regards to the dungeon, writing, “I’ve put chains on the four points of your cross and four points of theDungeon bed. On the end of each chain is a cuff. . . . I’ve done this bc it will be VERY easy to just throw someone on the cross or on the bed and just strap them into the ‘premade’ chains and cuffs.”
Rubin, now 70, and Jennifer Powers lured Playboy fashions and different girls to the town beneath false pretenses to torture and depart “deformed” after bondage, self-discipline, dominance, submission and sadomasochism classes, generally known as BDSM, based on the feds.
Rubin is accused of raping girls after that they had fallen unconscious or had been unable to say their “safe word” as a result of they had been “gagged and thus unable to coherently speak,” courtroom paperwork allege. One of many victims, who was solely in a position to make the abuse finish by biting Rubin’s finger, was overwhelmed so badly her breast implant flipped inside her, the paperwork cost.
The alleged abuse largely occurred at luxurious accommodations in Manhattan earlier than Rubin started leasing the 76th-floor penthouse on W. 57th St. in 2011.
Jennifer Powers arrange the victims’ air journey, paying them sometimes in installments on PayPal to keep away from scrutiny, and secured their silence with aggressively enforced nondisclosure agreements, which included a $500,000 penalty if damaged, courtroom papers cost. These NDAs “grossly misrepresented” the violence the ladies would endure, based on courtroom filings.
Rubin at one level went as far as to pursue a hitman on the darkish internet to silence the ladies who filed go well with in opposition to him, the feds allege.
Initially Revealed: September 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM EDT
