Victims of a former Morgan Stanley investment banker accused of secretly recording their sex romps are speaking out, telling The Post they’re fed up with the way they’ve been portrayed by his pricey criminal-defense team.
John C. Kelly, son of celebrity lawyer John Q. Kelly, allegedly filmed three women in his apartment and theirs using a hidden Web cam to capture the steamy trysts without their knowledge.
Kelly’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has claimed that the victim who first discovered the illicit recordings was a jealous stalker who only went to authorities after Kelly had her arrested for trashing his apartment. The Ivy League grad spent a night in jail before all charges against her were dismissed.
“It’s beyond humiliating,” said the victim, who knew Kelly for over a year. “It hurts, it’s a betrayal and it’s so shameful.”
But that woman says Kelly panicked after she confronted him with the footage she saw on his YouTube account. That’s when she discovered a flash drive Kelly had mistakenly left in her apartment containing sex sessions with each of the women, she said.
Kelly claims the videos were accidentally recorded by a “doggie cam” he set up to keep an eye on his prized puggle Maddie. Meanwhile, sources said, he’d labeled one of the steamy clips “India Research” in a flip reference to the ethnic background of one victim.
“What is this? An NSA doggie cam?” said one victim, 37. “These recordings were so clearly deliberate.”
“The videos are very shocking and disturbing,” said another victim, 34, who met Kelly eight years ago at a museum and thought they were in an exclusive relationship.
“It’s so creepy, because you can see him [on the video] setting them up, clicking away while we’re out of the room. And they’re angled in such a way that he’s showing off every intimate part of our bodies.”
Prosecutors have said Kelly can be seen on video setting up the camera while the women were out of the room.
Kelly faces 31 felony counts of unlawful surveillance and attempted unlawful surveillance and a dissemination charge for showing at least one of the videos to a pal for kicks, law-enforcement sources said.
The creepy videos were recorded between May 2011 and Dec. 31, 2012, and uploaded to private YouTube and Vimeo accounts, according to one victim’s defense lawyer, Daniel Parker.
Kelly would bring his laptop along when he visited the victims at their apartments, claiming he had work to do, the victims said. He would then allegedly leave the computer open on the nightstand or desk to face the bed.
Adding to their humiliation, each of the women had to review with strangers the tapes that captured their most intimate moments.
“People were crying when they saw them because they’re so violating — he would look at the camera and it was clear that we didn’t know what he was doing,” the 34-year-old victim said.
The third victim, 30, an Ivy League grad, declined to go into details of the case.
The handsome financier lost his job for writing bad checks in November 2013, according to FINRA.
His lawyer didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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