Overview

• Rubin pleaded not guilty at his Brooklyn arraignment, and a magistrate judge ordered him detained after rejecting a proposed $25 million bond.
• The unsealed EDNY indictment charges Rubin, 70, and Powers, 45, with sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines, carrying a 15-year mandatory minimum and up to life in prison.
• Prosecutors allege encounters from 2009 to 2019 moved from luxury hotels to a Central Park penthouse with a red, soundproofed “dungeon” equipped with restraints and devices to shock women.
• Women were recruited through social and modeling networks, required to sign NDAs, and some reported injuries requiring medical care, including a flipped breast implant that needed surgery.
• Payments were sent by wire and apps and sometimes structured below $10,000; at least $1 million funded the operation, with FBI and IRS-CI involved, and Rubin also faces bank-fraud allegations tied to Powers’ Texas mortgage as she awaits a Monday court appearance.