By: Marty Raminoff

A disturbing new lawsuit by a Jordanian woman, claims her brother repeatedly raped her and treated as his “sexual slave” for decades while residing in New York.

As reported by the NY Post, Eman Soudani, 63, who moved to NYS as a teen, is suing her brother Mout’z Soudani, 72, alleging decades of horrific abuse.  The lawsuit, recently filed in Manhattan federal court, also alleges that Mr. Soudani isolating her, denied her educational opportunities and subjected her to “economic servitude.”  Mout’z “forcibly took Plaintiff’s virginity in 1977, when she was 17, just months after she first arrived in the United States from Jordan,” the lawsuit alleges, adding that she had to get an abortion after her brother impregnated her in 1989.  “He continued to treat her as a sexual slave for decades, until October 2022, when Plaintiff finally escaped Soudani’s domination,” claims the lawsuit, which was filed by lawyer Arthur Middlemiss, under the expiring Adult Survivors Act.

The defendant counters that his sister is a liar and that the accusations are false.   “Eman Soudani’s civil complaint is absolutely false and complete fiction,” insisted Mout’z’s lawyer, Michael Burke. “He emphatically denies each and every allegation.”  The defendant’s lawyer pointed to news of a recent guilty plea by the plaintiff’s son, in which Eman’s son was charged for embezzling over $1.6 million from the defendant (his uncle) in a crypto currency scheme.

Eman’s November lawsuit claims that her brother, a former restaurateur, treated her as an indentured servant and controlled all aspects of her life for 45 years while sexually abusing her.  The lawsuit says they lived together at various times including in Rockland County and upstate Montgomery.  At the age of 17, she had become the primary caregiver to her brother’s three sons, which is when the sexual abuse began, the complaint alleges.  Mout’z’s first wife, Helen, was savagely murdered in September 1977 and found dead outside the couple’s now-shuttered Aegean Grotto restaurant, per the suit and the Journal News.  The murder was never solved, per the Post.

Eman eventually married an Egyptian man, Mohammed Elkarim, whom she was set up with in an arranged marriage by her brother, the suit said. They had a son and later divorced, and she moved back to her brother’s house, per court documents.  Aside from the forcible sexual abuse, the lawsuit also alleges that Mout’z “threatened and inflicted physical violence” against Eman and her son, Martin.  Eman said her brother threatened to kill her son on “multiple occasions”, that he pointed a gun at them more than once, and that they felt trapped fearing for their lives, per the complaint.

As per the NY Post, in the complaint, Eman said she finally escaped her brother last year by fleeing to Colorado with her son.  After she fled to Colorado, Soudani accused her of stealing over $300,000 in cash from him, and she was charged with grand larceny in March, the suit said.  The Orange County District Attorney’s Office had reduced the felony count to a misdemeanor, and the case was later dismissed by the Town of Goshen criminal court.

Mout’z’s lawyer, Burke, countered saying both Eman and her son Martin fled to Colorado when Mout’z became “suspicious” of the son’s fraud.

Martin Soudani, 34, was arraigned earlier this year in Orange County Court on an indictment charging him with grand larceny and money laundering.