A Wall Street financier who turned into the two-minute man during sex with an underling was caught in a recording begging the woman to see him again, it was revealed Tuesday.
Money man Benjamin Wey, 43, groveled to his much-younger former lover, Hanna Bouveng, 25, that he needed to with meet her, according to a recorded phone call played in Manhattan federal court.
“Pick a restaurant. How about Per Se? You like Per Se,” the married executive can be heard pathetically pleading, trying to use the trendy upscale Manhattan eatery as a lure.
Bouveng, a Swedish beauty who is suing Wey for $850 million, citing sexual harassment, says, “You kicked me out of my apartment and fired me! I don’t think there’s anything for us to talk about!”
“Ben, you told me if I don’t show you tangible love, [you’d] kick me out,” she added.
When Wey accuses her of cheating on him,Bouveng explodes again.
“Cheating?! What do you mean by cheating?” she says.
“I want to talk to you. I just want the chance to have the chance to talk to you about this guy,” whimpers Wey, the CEO of New York Global Group.
“What’s the purpose?’’ she says.
“Business,’’ Wey replies.
“You fired me! What’s the business?’’ an exasperated Bouveng retorts.
The phone call was played after a former worker at The Blot Magazine, an online publication funded by Wey, testified how creepy his boss acted toward Bouveng at work.
“He often behaved in a lecherous manner. He would comment on her physical appearance, praise how glamorous and beautiful she was,’’ said graphic designer Yonatan Weiss, who is suing Wey himself for getting the ax after reporting the alleged harassment to company lawyers.
“He would put his hand on the small of her back and would always have her at his side during meetings,’’ Weiss said.
Asked how Bouveng reacted to Wey’s touch, Weiss replied, “She would physically shake his hand off of her.”
Weiss was with Bouveng at the Zampa Winebar in Greenwich Village during the taped phone call April 28, 2014. Bouveng put the cellphone call on speaker, and Weiss recorded it.
He was fired about a month later.
Weiss also testified about how after Bouveng was fired, Wey told TheBlot staff that he wanted to do an investigation on Swedish party girls with the help of a top Swedish tabloid.
Bouveng claims that she agreed to have sex with Wey in December 2013, at the Tribeca apartment he rented for her, only after “relentless” pressure from him.
“He has sex with her, and it’s over in two minutes. She was horrified and debased,” her lawyer, David Ratner, said in court Monday.
Bouveng says that after she complained about the alleged harassment, Wey fired her.
Defense lawyer Glen Colton has said Bouveng didn’t tell anybody about the sexual incidents until after she was fired and called her initial complaint to Wey “extortion.”
“She said she would go to law enforcement and report the rape if he didn’t settle the case,” Colton said in court Monday.
Wey is set to testify Wednesday.
