In two separate civil suits, multiple women say that Wall Street portfolio manager Howard Rubin—infamous for his role in Merrill Lynch losing $275 million dollars in one quarter in 1987, later documented in the bestselling book Liar’s Poker—paid people to lure them to a Manhattan penthouse, where he bound them, beat them, and raped them in a room that one lawsuit dubbed a “dungeon.” When the lawsuits were first filed, Rubin’s lawyers said their client denied the claims; in subsequent filings in federal court, Rubin’s legal team has said that any sex was consensual and that Rubin didn’t do anything threatening.
But the lawsuits also discuss Rubin’s world and the people around him, and one name that has come up in multiple documents related to one of the lawsuits is that of private equity billionaire, Aston Villa investor, and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens. According to documents filed earlier this month in federal court, Edens is being subpoenaed as a third-party witness in the case. A process server tried six times to serve Edens at his office and at home, but was unable to track him down, leading attorney Brian Grossman to write to the court that “Plaintiffs are trying to serve him with a subpoena and has avoided such service.”
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