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A story broke this weekend that has everything.

Well, every awful thing from two other awful stories.

An insanely wealthy man abuses women, allegedly, and a woman procures victims for him, allegedly,

and this wealthy man gets away with it for years before both he and the woman procuring women

for him are finally arrested and charged with sex trafficking.

There's also a penthouse apartment with a red room in it, a soundproof red

room, a sex dungeon in the sky fitted with BDSM devices, according to the New York Times.

So, shades of Jeffrey Epstein and Giselle Maxwell and shades of Christian Gray, the kinky

protagonist of El James novel,

50 Shades of Gray, which was about a wealthy man with a penthouse apartment,

with a red room in it, fitted out with BDSM devices,

who was magically cured of his kinks by the love of a young woman.

The kinky rich guy in this story, though, Isn't a handsome young man a la Christian Gray?

He's a 70-year-old former Wall Street bigwig named Howard Rubin.

With the help of his co-conspirator, Jennifer Powers, who found women for Rubin to abuse,

much like Maxwell found girls for Epstein to abuse, Rubin, quote, engaged in act that went far beyond what the women had

signed up for, according to prosecutors.

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