Not too long ago, a short story in the Wall Street Journal caught the attention of our colleague Eric Schwartzel.

It was a story about a man named Howard Rubin who'd been arrested on sex trafficking charges.

He pleaded not guilty.

I had never heard of Howard Rubin before. He pleaded not guilty.

I had never heard of Howard Rubin before,

and when I started to learn more about his biography and realized that he had been a pretty, you know,

regular feature of the Wall Street Journal in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Rubin was a star trader on Wall Street,

who made millions, and whose successes and failures over the years

got written up in our newspaper in the Wall Street Journal.

Along with his reputation as a big-shot trader,

he was also known as a family man. When I talked to folks who worked with him at the time,

they would tell me that, you know, frankly,

Howie, as they all call him,

wasn't necessarily the hard partying type.

He was seen as someone who was just pretty normal guy.

And he had the trappings of a pretty domestic life.

But something that not many people knew was that Ruben had a dark side.

The literary comparison that would often come up is Jekyll and Hyde,

this question of like someone who appeared to be one

person in the daytime and another person behind closed doors.

How would you describe who Howard Rubin is?

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