By: Jared Evan
Disgraced former NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who resigned after four of his ex-girlfriend’s revealed to the media that he was a violent misogynistic monster, has resurfaced in the news.
Actress and former girlfriend of Eric Schneiderman, Tanya Selvaratnam just released a new memoir entitled “Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence.”
She writes about how she was drawn to Schneiderman’s lofty progressive politics and his support of “me too”.
NY Post reported: “publicly, Schneiderman championed women’s rights, Tanya Selvaratnam says in touting her new memoir. But privately, he horribly abused her, says Selvaratnum — who the ex-AG allegedly called his “brown slave” — in a video promotion for the book shared with The Post”,
“He was the Attorney General of New York State, and was getting national recognition as a progressive hero and a key ally of the ‘Me Too’ movement,” Selvaratnum wrote, referring to when their relationship started in 2017.
“I was scared to come forward because he had told me he could have me followed. He could have my phone tapped.
“On some occasions, he said if we broke up, he would have to kill me.
“But when I found out that I was not the first woman he had abused, and realized that I would not be the last, I knew that I had to come forward,” Selvaratnum wrote in her tome, which is published by HarperCollins was just released.
The former AG posed as an enlightened progressive to lure in potential liberal female victims, but behind closed doors he was an abusive animal.
On May 7, 2018, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker that Schneiderman had physically abused at least four women during his tenure as Attorney General. According to the report, Schneiderman had, between about 2013 and 2016, committed acts of violence against four women: the blogger and activist Michelle Manning Barish, the author and actress Tanya Selvaratnam, an unnamed female lawyer, and a fourth woman, according to New Yorker.
The women said that Schneiderman had choked, hit or violently slapped them, all without their consent. Selvaratnam added that Schneiderman spat on her, choked her, called her his “brown slave,” ordered her to call him “Master” and say that she was “his property,” and demanded that she find another woman who would be willing to engage in a ménage à trois, according to the expose.
Schneiderman resigned hours after the release of the article. He got off easy and now is allegedly a meditation teacher.
Governor Andrew Cuomo assigned Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas as a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal charges against Schneiderman, and on November 8, 2018, Singas announced that Schneiderman would not be prosecuted, part of the reasoning was the statue of limitations. Since then, the entire scandal was long forgotten until Selvaratnam’s book was released.