NYC's Elite Are In A Tizzy After Justice Department 'Inadvertently' Publishes List Of 121 'Clients' - Including Lawyers, Businessmen, And Socialites - Who Solicited Sarah Lawrence 'Sex Cult Victim' Who Was Forced Into Prostitution

Original Article By Karen Ruiz, Greg Woodfield, And Laura Collins At DailyMail.co.uk

The US Attorney’s Office on Tuesday accidentally published a list of alleged clients of the student prostitute in the Sarah Lawrence ‘sex cult’ case
DailyMail.com acquired a copy of the list of 121 names which was taken down nearly as fast as it was put up
The list, which was entered into evidence in the trial under seal, includes lawyers and businessmen and socialites throughout the Tri-state area
Alleged clients include a Metropolitan Transit Authority executive, an account executive at Amazon, and a former New York State Supreme Court judge
The Justice Department later sent out an email admitting the file was shared in error, adding: ‘Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way’
Alleged cult victim Claudia Drury, 31, took the stand Friday and Monday to tell jurors how she was forced into prostitution by accused leader Larry Ray, 62
Ray is charged with sex trafficking, extortion, money laundering, violent crime in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and forced labor
The ex-convict is accused of running a sex cult out of his daughter Talia’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College

New York’s business elite was left shaking in its boots Tuesday after a list of alleged clients of the student prostitute in the Sarah Lawrence ‘sex cult’ case was inadvertently published online.

The list, which was entered into evidence under seal in the ongoing trial of accused cult leader Larry Ray, includes lawyers and businessmen and socialites throughout the Tri-state area.

DailyMail.com acquired a copy of the list of 121 names which was taken down nearly as fast as it was put up.

A top executive at The Gap clothing firm and her husband was one of two married couples included. A former New York State Supreme Court judge is also named.

Another alleged client is a painter who has studios in Manhattan’s East Village and in Italy. A third is an architect, famous for designing college and university buildings.

An investment executive who was also in pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous little black book of contacts is also listed.

Other names include a hedge fund manager who has donated millions to charity and has his name on a museum building in New York, a Washington DC, lobbyist who has worked for a foreign resistance movement and an international diamond dealer.

Also included is an executive at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, an account executive at Amazon and a veteran travel writer.

The document is among the government exhibits admitted in the federal case against 62-year-old Ray, who is on trial in New York, charged with operating a sex cult out of his daughter’s dorm room at Sarah Lawrence College.

The list is said to have been compiled and included in an email by former Sarah Lawrence student Claudia Drury, 31, who has been on the stand giving evidence against Ray, whom she claims coerced her into becoming a prostitute.

But somehow the government posted the ‘sealed’ document online and then immediately scrambled to stop the information getting out.

‘Per order of the Court, government exhibit #3217 (GX 3217) was admitted under seal,’ a spokesman for the Department of Justice wrote in an email soon after the document was taken offline.

‘This file was inadvertently loaded to the U.S. v. Ray file share. Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way, if you have downloaded this file, please delete it.’

But the department’s plea is unlikely to be successful as the document has already been posted on Twitter.

The list is included in an email said to be from Drury to the Department.

‘This is not an exhaustive list but it includes all my main clients/regulars and many others,’ she wrote.

Drury is one of at least five cult members who were students at the elite liberal arts college in Bronxville, just north of Manhattan, when they met Ray.

Ray was introduced to the group in the fall of 2010 when he began living in his daughter Talia’s on-campus dorm, where he persuaded her friends to stay the next summer at his city apartment.

Prosecutors say Ray coerced the students to join his ‘family’ as he accumulated power, sex and money, forcing one woman into a sex work enterprise so lucrative that she turned over more than $1million to him in a single year.

Drury, 31, began her testimony Friday, telling jurors at Manhattan Federal Court how Ray’s campaign of charisma resulted in her being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility and ultimately led her into a life of prostitution.

She described how she went from a naïve student to soliciting sex, ultimately handing over $2.5million in earnings to Ray, his daughter Talia and his ‘lieutenant’ and co-accused Isabella Pollok.

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