ok ok it wasnt 20 mill like Id originally thought
Benjamin Wey forced to pay intern $5.65M in sexual harassment lawsuit must now hand over more | Daily Mail Online
Disgraced Wall Street CEO forced to pay Swedish intern $5.65M in sexual harassment lawsuit 'must now hand over $2.4M more for trash-talking the woman on social media'
- Hanna Bouveng, 26, was awarded $5.65 million in damages in 2014
- She sued CEO Benjamin Wey for $18 million for 'pressuring her into sex'
- Part of the settlement was that Wey would be 'fined' for speaking negatively about Bouveng on social media
- In court documents filed last week, her legal team say he has published 59 posts that violate the agreement
- They are now seeking a further $2.4 million in damages
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A New York financier who was forced to pay $5.65 million in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought forward by a Swedish intern may now have to pay the same woman an extra $2.4 million for an alleged breach of contract.
Wall Street boss Benjamin Wey paid out his former intern Hanna Bouveng in 2014, after she accused him of pressuring her into sex and firing her when she refused his advances.
However part of the agreement was that Wey would have to pay Bouveng $10,000 for every negative tweet he published about her, and $50,000 for each time he tried to communicate with her,
The New York Post reported.
Bouveng claims Wey has violated the agreement dozens of times.
More trouble: Wall Street boss Benjamin Wey (left) paid out his former intern Hanna Bouveng (right) $5.65 million in 2014, after she accused him of pressuring her into sex, but now she is seeking $2.4 million more
Breach of agreement: Bouveng's lawyers claim that Wey violated a deal made in the settlement that he would not speak negatively about his former intern on social media. Seen here is a tweet Wey posted in April
'The homewrecker': The financier is accused of trash-talking Bouveng online after agreeing he wouldn't
Wey has as slammed Bouveng on Twitter as a 'homewrecker', 'cocaine user' and 'failed extortionist', according to court papers filed in Manhattan federal court last week.
Bouveng's lawyers claim that 59 posts violate the $10,000 twitter agreement.
Of those tweets, 26 also breach the $50,000 stipulation, which brings the fine to $1.3 million.
A further $510,000 is also being sought based on other posts, bringing the total to $2.4 million.
The documents say that Wey approached Bouveng in a cafe in the Swedish town where she is from.
He also attempted to speak with her 19-year-old cousin at a bar, the documents note.
Neither Wey or his lawyers have commented on the claims, however they are expected to file a response on Tuesday.
The civil case involved Bouveng suing the married Wey, 44, for pressuring her into having sex and posting malicious false messages online saying she was cocaine-addicted prostitute.
She originally sought $18 million, but was awarded $5.65 million by the judge and told to 'take it or leave it'.
In an exclusive interview with
The Post days after the verdict, Bouveng branded Wey a 'psychopath' who tried to 'control and isolate her'.
'He manipulated me, and he broke me down in various different ways. It could be the way he was acting in the office, depending on whether I had dinner with him or not,' she said at the time.
Wey's wife, Michaela, broke down in tears as she was questioned about the alleged affair in court.
In a separate case, Wey was indicted on alleged stock manipulation charges, which he has pleaded not guilty to.
The Bouveng trial garnered lurid tabloid headlines bypitting the young woman against the Wall Street financier.
At trial, lawyers for Bouveng contended that Wey had engagedin a relentless campaign of harassment after hiring her in 2013when she was 24, buying her gifts and demanding sexual favors inreturn.
Bouveng's lawyers said Wey's actions led to sexualencounters before she rejected his further attempts. Wey then fired her after discovering another man in her apartment,which he was helping to finance, in April 2014.
After she filed her civil lawsuit, Wey wrote severaldisparaging articles in an online publication, TheBlot,controlled by FNL Media, a New York Global Group subsidiary.Both companies were also defendants.
Wey's lawyer, Glenn Colton, contended at trial that hisclient and Bouveng never had sex, and that Bouveng attempted toextort Wey after she was fired for substandard work.
Bouveng told the court Wey had fired her after finding her boyfriend James Chauvet (right) staying in her apartment