A WOLF of Wall Street has to cough up $23 million for sexually harassing and then trashing online his pretty Swedish underling, a Manhattan jury has ruled.
Plaintiff Hanna Bouveng, 25, scored the massive payday after filing suit against her married former boss, Benjamin Wey, the 43-year-old CEO of New York Global Group.

The big award came from punitive damages, with the federal jury handing Bouveng a total of $20 million for defamation that included Wey smearing her on his Webzine after their breakup and emailing her father a vicious note when he found another man in her bed.

Bouveng also landed $650,000 in compensatory damages for sexual harassment that ranged from Wey openly panting over her at the office to pressuring her to sleep with him. When she finally fell into bed with him, he lasted just 2 minutes, she said.
Jurors awarded Bouveng another $1.95 million to compensate her for Wey’s defamation.
The four-man, four-woman jury was upset by the trial’s intense and graphic testimony.

“It was a pretty disturbing trial. I think everybody was troubled by the nature of the case,” said the jury foreman.
Hanna Bouveng beams after being awarded $23 million by a New York jury.

Hanna Bouveng beams after being awarded $23 million by a New York jury. Source: New York Post

A female juror bashed Wey for defaming Bouveng.
“We hope it will make companies and individuals think twice before personally defaming someone else,” the female juror said of their award.
“We felt she was hurt in everything that came out on social media and in the media.”

Asked whether she would spend a night in a hotel room with Wey — as Bouveng testified she was pressured into doing on multiple business trips — the juror smirked and said, “No comment!”
Bouveng’s suit had sought a total of over $1 billion.

The jury awarded Bouveng $US1 million for the retaliation she suffered after she called it quits with Wey and he fired her. And then they deliberated several more hours over punitive damages before awarding the final $20​ million.

“I saw a 6-foot-tall homeless black man named James lying on her bed. The man was totally naked, dirty, totally drunk and perhaps on illegal drugs,” Wey wrote to Bouveng’s father, Nils Sundqvist, in one e-mail entered into evidence.

The pretty brunette gave a small smile to her lawyers as the initial verdict was read.
Also in court was the other man she’d been in bed with, James Chauvet — a sharp-dressed club promoter. The pair shared a long hug after the verdict.
“I think it was a good verdict,’’ Chauvet later said.

Wey, who had been in court every day for the trial with his wife, was not in the courtroom.

His lawyer, Glenn Colton, declined comment.
One of Bouveng’s lawyers, David Ratner, bashed Wey for not showing up to hear the verdict.

“He’s got balls when he’s hiding behind his stupid magazine, but when it comes to facing the jurors, he doesn’t show up,” Ratner said.

“The jury said yes, she was sexually harassed, yes, she suffered retaliation, yes, she suffered defamation — and they rejected everything Wey had to say,’’ the lawyer said. “She’s ecstatic, and we are very, very pleased.”

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