A stripper is suing a financier who she says ‘forcibly raped’ her in a private room at a New York club.
The woman, who is not being identified, claims the attack took place at Penthouse Executive Club in Manhattan on April 29.
She alleges that she was in the middle of performing a private dance for 35-year-old Patrick Dinneen when he pulled out his penis and forced her to to the ground.
She claims he raped her for two minutes and that she was only able to escape when she eventually pushed him off of her and ran for help.
The woman, who is not being identified, claims the attack took place at Penthouse Executive Club (pictured) in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen on April 29
The woman filed her lawsuit in civil court and is also suing the strip club for not providing adequate attention.
Dinneen has never been arrested despite the woman claiming to have reported it to the police when it happened.
NYPD sources told New York Daily News that its only record of any such incident was reported on May 18.
The strip club was previously forced to pay other dancers for a technicality in their contracts.
They had been improperly categorized as independent contractors.
In her lawsuit, the woman claims she took Dinneen into the private room and began dancing for him when he ‘unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis’.
She claims she told him to ‘put his penis back in his pants and that she was going to stop the dance because she was uncomfortable’ but he refused.
He then ‘jumped’ on top of her, she said. After raping her for two minutes, the man ‘stopped struggling with her,’ she claims.
‘Then (she) pushed defendant Dinneen and ran to the door,’ the lawsuit reads.
The woman was then able to call for help from other staff.
Dinneen, who reportedly works for the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has not responded to the lawsuit.
The strip club has been previously sued by other dancers over their contracts (file image)