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Posted on 04/25/2025 11:15:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — A private equity executive turned his New York City apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence,” Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday. He is accused of raping six women over five months in a depraved rampage in which he allegedly punched, waterboarded and shocked victims with a cattle prod and kept recordings of the assaults as trophies.
Ryan Hemphill, who remains jailed after his arrest last month, pleaded not guilty to a 116-count indictment charging him with predatory sexual assault and other crimes dating to last October. The 43-year-old, who is also a lawyer, threatened to have victims arrested or disappeared in a bid to keep them silent, prosecutors said.
“The defendant told these survivors that he was untouchable,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “The indictment makes clear that he was wrong.”
Hemphill sat quietly in a khaki jail suit, his cuffed hands clutching a cross behind his back, as a prosecutor described his alleged crimes in gruesome detail.
If convicted, Hemphill could spend the rest of his life in prison. He was previously acquitted in 2015 of choking and holding a knife to his ex-girlfriend’s throat after testifying that he enjoyed strangling her during sex.
“We have reason to believe these six victims are only the tip of the iceberg,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer told Judge Ann E. Scherzer.
Hemphill’s apartment, near the Empire State Building, was outfitted with numerous surveillance cameras, and investigators have recovered images showing dozens, if not hundreds, of other women, many of them naked and blindfolded, Curzer said.
Investigators also found hundreds of bullets and high-capacity magazines, and a large amount of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Hemphill met the six women through websites, including some that specialize in “sugar daddy” arrangements for...
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Sounds like what prosecutors like to call "evidence."
I hate people accused of being a serial rapist when they hide behind a rosary.
PE has been getting a lot of bad press lately.
They were instrumental in the rape of American businesses like Sears and Toys “R” Us.
Now their executive has been accused of actual rape.
I have no idea what that means or what it has to do with the article.
We need to be more tolerant of alternate lifestyles. Violent rapists and murderers have needs too, just ask the democrats who are fighting to import more of them.
I’m suspicious of any case brought by New York prosecutors.
‘Fifty Shades of Hemphill’
It’s all the rage!
The guy is wearing a rosary around his neck when he is taken to jail.
Thanks. Wearing a rosary as jewelry is a sacrilege in and of itself.
He held a cross in his hands, behind his back. I think that was the commenters source.
Who does he think he is? Shannon Sharpe?
If the perp did it,, I’m wondering how much they knew and let him get away with before they dropped the hammer.
Somebody needs to get a federal judge on this case! The poor fellow clearly just needs a few sensitive females to understand his deeply felt needs—and the rights that follow from those needs.
Or whose daughter, wife, or sister was a guest of his.
Private equity? Guess he decided to go from raping corporate persons to real ones.
I found this....
A 43-year-old private equity and venture capital executive based in NYC, known for founding Madison Park Capital Advisors in 2013. He has managed diverse portfolios, including real estate, green energy, and technology startups, and holds degrees in Drama, Philosophy, and a JD/MBA from Hofstra University. Hemphill was also involved in philanthropy, notably with the United Nations and arts education programs.
Jeepers, almost like the movie “American Psycho”.
He doesn’t look very physically attractive. Do you think he was financially attractive?
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