Photo-Illustration: Art Handler I. Anyone who spent time with Talia Ray during her first year at Sarah Lawrence College heard her talk about her father. He was a truth teller, she’d explain, who’d been silenced by a group of powerful, vindictive men. He’d been sent to prison for his heroic efforts to save her and her younger sister from their abusive mother, and his incarceration was the result of deep-seated government corruption.
Located just above the city limits of New York, Sarah Lawrence looks as if it had been plucked from a New England town and plopped 15 miles north of Times Square. It can feel whimsically sheltered, even more so than most liberal-arts colleges. The school’s head of security once sent out safety alerts because a small fox had been seen on campus. The residents of Slonim 9 were in some ways typical Sarah Lawrence students: an artistic, bookish group of introverts with good grades.
“Isabella was pretty fragile,” says Juli Anna. “In fact, a lot of people in that building were pretty fragile.” Another roommate, Claudia, was particularly intrigued by the presentation and began having weekly counseling sessions with Larry. Claudia had grown up on the outskirts of Los Angeles. In high school, she was part of a group of close friends who spent weekends writing poetry, taking pictures, and talking about boys. “She was so smart and creative,” says one of her best friends from high school. “I think what she was best at was telling stories.
Near the end of the school year, Daniel found himself unmoored. His relationship with his girlfriend was crumbling, and he had nowhere to live that summer. Santos and Claudia urged him to speak with Larry. The two met in a Starbucks one afternoon and talked for hours. Larry gave him advice that felt refreshingly straightforward: Dump your girlfriend. On the question of Daniel’s sexuality, Larry shut down the suggestion conclusively: “Oh no, you’re not gay,” he said.
Living in the apartment wasn’t all that different from living in a college dorm. There were family meals, movie nights, and a self-serious camaraderie that fostered intense discussions that could drag on all night. Daniel would wake up the next morning to “Baba O’Riley” and go to his job exhausted. Larry himself never seemed to get tired. He preached the benefits of prescription amphetamines and, according to multiple acquaintances, took them in such high doses he rarely needed sleep.
Crazy story.
Why didn't SarahLawrence's admin prevent this violence against their students from happening? Didn't security cameras track the comings and goings of Larry Ray? Were where the Resident Assistants and Resident Directors? Why didn't these students' parents prepare them for life?
How is a man allowed to sleep in a girls' college dorm?
What did I just finished reading? This is horrible. Young lives destroyed, devastated parents, and how a school allows a father to stay on campus? This is crazy!!😳😳😳😳😳
I remember reading this story, glad legal action was finally taken
Seriously in today’s climate schools go into lock down if a student sees a piece of rope & men’s lives are completely ruined over a hint of “sexual assault”. Seriously NO ONE at the school knew about this or reported it? Not buying it.
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Thank you so much. Excellent work.
SarahLawrence needs to be held accountable. They knew & chose to ignore what was going on. Reprehensible.
Epstein didn't kill himself. Why is the current administration covering this up?
Can’t wait for the movie! Hollywood
It’s about time. Good riddance. Put this guy away!
School was complicit. USADictatorship
This is a wild story
Twitter waiting for Gayle’s King’s CBS This Morning interview rn SarahLawrenceCollege GayleKing LawrenceRay SexTrafficking
This was a well-written, compelling and horrifying story. It stayed with me. Glad you revealed the disturbing details that led to this... Investigative journalism for the win.
Take away his MAGA hat
Damn. This is so twisted and effed up.What a soulless entity Ray is. So convoluted.
Women and children are not safe
“His primary conversational tactic is to overwhelm.” Classic malignant, narcissistic behavior. Does this article remind you of anyone, and his cult? Hint: initials DJT.
Men. I swear to god. SnoopDogg and all the dudes preaching about when women are allowed to talk about rape: violent act of holding someone down, stripping their clothes off, and forcing your body in/on them. Like, when is a good time for y’all? Non consensual sex is rape.
Sarah Lawrence College sounds like a great school. 50,000 a year in tuition to be horribly exploited.
Wow what a article! Very intense. It’s insanely shocking this guy has been able to get even this far.
I can't believe this, each scroll the story grew wilder and wilder
This is a true story ?
My big ? Us did he drug these kids? How did he control these girls? Were there young meb too? Some one was paying!
For a decade and the fbi are now arresting him? I believe the fbi be knowing about ongoing crimes against people and they just watch and let these bad things happen
WILD
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Do you have any updates on his victims? Do we know if Isabel, Talia and Felicia are still under his influence? Are Claudia and Daniel still free? Has anyone found Santos?!
Good job nymag for exposing this creep
How did this go unnoticed on campus?
SidneyPowell1 'Larry' uses the same tactics as MSM to warp the minds of moron democrats
how the hell did this happen
I still think about this article. Am glad charges finally came from it
Jesus! What a miscreant!
This is the craziest story I have ever read. A one man wrecking crew of so many lives and families.
This is so real and of course Rudy Giuliani is involved. And any child of the sixties would recognize amphetamine psychosis. Sarah Lawrence needs to answer for this.
While reading this story I could not stop thinking of the parallels to Trump, the GOP and his administration regarding the process of brain washing. Its uncanny and horrifying.
Oof, this was a really intense read
Another example of Great Work by Journalists. RealNews 👏 👏👏👏👏
Milkman__Dead okaymisha these your people?
Heads will roll at Sarah Lawrence. Or should.
Holy shit. So hard to imagine this going on on a university campus.
Reads very much like Charles Manson...
ReadytoglareYT hope you can possibly cover this story
A Harvard educated doctor left her residency to do yard work in Northh Carolina? And then there’s a bill sent to her parents for damage? This article really makes the young college students look mentally incompetent.....
Wow! What a fucked up story. And not surprisingly Trump is in there.
Me trying to figure out the number of people lying in this story because my bullshit-o-meter is blaring right now.
ZerlinaMaxwell Waiting for Barr and Trump to pardon him and then have him over for dinner.
Holy smokes. Connections to Bernie Kerik, Giuliani, Trump bodyguard, and worked on Wall Street when Epstein did 🤔
SidneyPowell1 “He controlled every aspect of our lives once we were in the apartment,” the boyfriend says. “When we ate, what we did, when we went to bed.”
SidneyPowell1 A modern day Svengali. I hope he rots in jail.
This is one of the most disgusting and disturbing stories I have ever read. What a sick individual to prey upon these young kids like that. New York should institute the death penalty for him.
What drives these men to risk it all? Unreal
That story was fucking awesome
Wtf?! 😒
Does the school take any responsibility?
So it took 10 months to finally charge him? Seems no one was in a hurry
How did this go on for so long?
How does a parole/probation officer not IMMEDIATELY hear that parolee is moving into dorm room with college girls and go 'hell nope'? The article goes into detail but no insight into how this basic check was missed, dismissed it whatever.
REALLYURKIDING Read it. Awesome. Great job.
FirstThem
That story was horrid but you exposed him! Thanks from every mom and dad with college aged young women!
Capital Punishment cut his nuts off!
When the news of Lawrence Ray's indictment broke today, I thought I had read or seen a similar story in a book or movie. But it was actually this article. This story is almost too crazy to be real.
If my kid is away at college and he/she calls to tell me someone’s father moved into the dorm, I’m on the phone right away with the school.
I saw this episode of Law & Order.
Thank you for great journalism!
Salute to High-Quality journalism media Press
I’m going to need a documentary on this one. How does something like this even happen.
I remember that report and have wondered why he was not already back in jail
It’s coming! ThePain!
ezra_marc MrJDWalsh Yikes. gloomy_lawyer
ezra_marc MrJDWalsh Wtffffff
This was chilling. Mind control on a new level..
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