“He threatened to cut my face. He threatened to have me abducted and dropped in the Middle East. He threatened to blackmail people I knew. He threatened to beat up my father.”
“He threatened to kill me on a memorable occasion,” Claudia Drury, 31, said duringtrial in Manhattan federal court on Friday.
Ray has pleaded not guilty to several charges, including sex trafficking, extortion, and racketeering conspiracy, for allegedly physically, sexually, and psychologically abusing the college students—and laundering $1 million from Drury after forcing her into sex work. Eventually, prosecutors said, the abuse spanned his Manhattan apartment, North Carolina, and other locations.in April 2019.
“He slapped me in the face so hard I fell over, pulled my hair, strangled me, suffocated me, hit me,” Drury said Friday.
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