Ladies, he’s baaaaaack!
Sanford Rubenstein, the 70-year-old civil- rights lawyer who was accused of raping a woman he met at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 60th birthday party but never prosecuted, was out carousing with eight women at exclusive Manhattan club Provocateur Thursday night.
The playboy lawyer, whose clients have included the families of Eric Garner and Sean Bell, was spotted with his slicked-back hair, a jaunty neck scarf and an embroidered beige jacket at a private table with a group of statuesque, dark-skinned beauties at the Meatpacking club.
An onlooker told us Rubenstein’s recent legal drama clearly hadn’t hampered his prowess with the opposite sex: “Sanford was with a bunch of women, seven or eight ladies. They seemed to be having a very good time. They were relaxed and drinking champagne. He appeared very happy. He spent all night with them, laughing and talking. He didn’t seem to be with one particular woman
he was with all of them.”
Rubenstein had been relatively low-key since Sharpton’s October party at the Four Seasons after Iasha Rivers accused the lawyer of raping her at his Upper East Side apartment afterward.
But Manhattan prosecutors in January dropped their case due to a lack of evidence. He is still facing a civil lawsuit from his accuser, and in February he filed a defamation suit in response, claiming he and the woman had consensual sex.
He was later spotted in Miami with another beauty, nurse Laura Abraham, on a lounger at the Delano hotel. In March, Abraham told The Post of Rubenstein’s desire for kinky sex during their
three-month relationship: “He said, ‘It’s OK if you don’t want to be exclusive anymore, because I would love to see you have sex with multiple men at the same time in every orifice of your body.’ ” Don Juan couldn’t have put it with more eloquence.
Rubenstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told us: “Sanford Rubenstein is a nonmarried, successful, adult, private citizen. Where he goes and what he does in his private life, therefore, should remain private.”