Jet-setting media writer Jason Binn was arrested Monday for allegedly grabbing a teen feminine relative’s buttocks after a swanky meal at a Manhattan restaurant on Valentine’s Day.
The DuJour journal chief and longtime Hamptons mainstay, 54, was hit with misdemeanor raps alleging forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a kid and third-degree intercourse abuse at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
Carrying a masks, Binn desperately tried to keep away from having his image taken in courtroom and needed to be directed to face the decide at one level — an angle that uncovered him to photographers.
Binn was launched on his personal recognizance and left rapidly with out remark. He’s due again in courtroom subsequent month.
Based on a police report and law-enforcement sources, Binn allegedly squeezed the buttocks of the 16-year-old member of the family over her garments with out her consent after consuming on the Italian hotspot Cipriani round 8 p.m. in February.
The alleged sufferer went to police in late April to file a grievance, sources stated.
Binn allegedly “forcibly touched the sexual and different intimate elements of one other particular person for the aim of degrading and abusing such particular person, and for the aim of gratifying the defendant’s sexual want,” courtroom papers state.
The well-heeled defendant declined remark to The Put up on Monday. His lawyer, Alan Sash, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
However Binn’s divorce lawyer, Valentina Shaknes, stated in a press release, “That is sadly the most recent chapter in an extended and bitter divorce continuing.
“We is not going to be commenting any additional.”
The publishing impresario based Area of interest Media, an umbrella model for a sequence of luxurious life-style publications catering to elite enclaves in cities together with Aspen and Los Angeles.
Binn cut up together with his ex-wife Haley in 2016, and divorce proceedings are nonetheless ongoing, sources stated. The pair have two daughters and a son.
Binn is routinely photographed with celebrities throughout the globe, together with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Chrissy Teigen.
