NYC Surgeon Accused of Turning Model Into ‘Sex Slave’ Also Allegedly Beat Ex-wife and Injected Hormones: Shocking Court Documents
A Manhattan plastic surgeon accused in a bombshell lawsuit of turning a model into a “sex slave” allegedly also viciously tortured his ex-wife and forcibly injected her with hormones, according to unsettling court documents.
Ammar Mahmoud is locked in a lengthy legal struggle with his former wife, a Syrian native, who filed a civil case against him in 2014 following their brief arranged marriage, according to court records.
“Plaintiff’s former husband attacked her on several occasions, including pushing her out of the house on a cold day without clothes on, and forcefully injecting growth hormones into her so that she could achieve the ‘perfect body,” according to a police report.
Many of her charges, such as one in which he reportedly beat her and smothered her with a pillow, are similar to those made by his ex-girlfriend, Maya Willow Sias, 25, who filed her civil action against the doctor this week.
Bryan Swerling, who has represented Mahmoud’s ex-wife in the nearly ten years since she filed her complaint, said he was unaware of Sias’ case until it was exclusively published in The Post Wednesday.
“I’m not surprised considering the allegations we made in our lawsuit from years ago,” he told me.
The petition filed in Manhattan civil court by Mahmoud’s ex-wife — who The Post will not identify because she is the victim of alleged abuse — originally included 37 causes of action against him, ranging from assault to slander.
Many allegations, including her accusation, outlined in a subsequent deposition, that he raped her during their 2013 honeymoon, were later rejected by a judge because they fell outside a one-year statute of limitations, according to court documents.
However, many other troubling charges, such as mistreatment, forced injections, and planned character assassination, were mostly unaffected by the dismissals.
The charge that Mahmoud attacked her and suffocated her with a pillow in December 2013 was upheld, as was the complaint that he beat her with a book and locked her out of their house in the cold while she was wearing just her pajamas in March 2014.
The horrifying complaint also claims Mahmoud’s doctor mother, Daed Nokari, of performing humiliating gynecological exams on his ex-wife and then spreading false reports throughout Syria that her daughter-in-law was a hermaphrodite, according to records.
Nokari had moved to Brooklyn from Syria, but she frequently returned to the Middle Eastern country, where she approached her future daughter-in-law because “she was searching for a suitable wife for her son,” the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit identifies her as a highly accomplished Syrian doctor who first met Mahmoud in 2011 and began contact. The couple married in 2013 on Staten Island.
The trip to the United States proved challenging for the new wife, who knew little English at the time and couldn’t legally work, leaving her “completely financially dependent on her new husband and her in-laws,” according to court documents.
The lawsuit charges Mahmoud and his mother with “taking advantage of this vulnerability.” “In sum, (she) came to the United States from Syria to live with her husband and his mother where she was at their complete mercy,” according to the report.
According to the lawsuit, Mahmoud began verbally and physically abusing her almost immediately after she moved to New York.
He was a bodybuilder who had been injecting himself with human growth hormone and, dissatisfied with his new bride’s appearance, began insisting she take the medicine and attend the gym, according to the lawsuit.
When she refused to take the medicine, Mahmoud allegedly injected her “by force and without consent” many times, threatening her with violence, according to the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Mahmoud’s wife once approached her mother-in-law for a recommendation on a gynecologist. But Nokari, a gynecologist, insisted on examining her daughter-in-law on a computer table since sending her to another doctor would be too expensive, according to court documents.
“Under pressure and duress, the plaintiff submitted to this humiliating examination by her mother-in-law,” according to the paperwork.
The original incident was dropped from the lawsuit, but subsequent alleged forced gynecological exams are still part of the case, according to records.
The complaint also describes a horrific alleged beating by Mahmoud, which bears alarming similarities to an assault that Sias, his subsequent model paramour, claimed left her terrified for her life.
Mahmoud allegedly abused his then-wife by “stepping on her neck, throwing her on the floor, hitting her in the face several times with his open hand, and smothering her with a pillow which prevented her from breathing or making noise,” according to the suit.
The lawsuit claims that when the couple’s marriage deteriorated, Nokari began telling friends and family in Syria in June 2014 that her daughter-in-law was a hermaphrodite, using an Arabic slur.
In court pleadings, Mahmoud and his mother contested that the word meant hermaphrodite. They sued his ex-wife in 2019 for defamation, claiming she spread a “kitchen-sink variety of outright falsehoods” about them.
That case, along with Mahmoud’s ex-wife’s lawsuit, is still ongoing.
Mahmoud, who has previously rejected Sias’ charges, did not reply to The Post’s questioning Wednesday as he exited his opulent Alinea Medical Spa office on Fifth Avenue.
Mahmoud, dressed in all-black sneakers, scrubs, and a jacket, snubbed a reporter while talking on the phone and entering the lobby of a West 47th Street building.
Jonah Zweig, Mahmoud’s attorney in the complaint filed by his ex-wife, did not reply to demands for comment.
No Kari could not be reached for comment.
Swerling, Mahmoud’s ex-wife’s attorney, said the latest claims brought by Sias might be used in his ongoing civil action. According to Sias’ lawsuit, Mahmoud drugged and imprisoned her in his luxurious house.
She also claimed Mahmoud damaged her eye socket and, to conceal his assault, injected fillers into her face without anesthesia, according to the lawsuit.
Swerling believes that Sias’ accusations of abuse might be used as proof of Mahmoud’s alleged pattern of bad behavior in a trial over his ex-wife’s claims.
“It seems like repeat behavior, and it’s not surprising,” he stated.
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