By Germania Rodriguez Poleo and Emma James for Dailymail.Com
18:07 June 24, 2024, updated 20:02 June 24, 2024
The millionaire investment banker who was filmed hitting a woman during a Brooklyn Pride rally has quit his high-paying job.
Jonathan Kaye, 52, was a managing director at Moelis & Company, a leading investment bank with offices in Midtown Manhattan.
He was placed on leave following the June 8 viral incident, which reportedly left the 38-year-old woman with a broken nose and a black eye.
On Monday, a spokesman told DailyMail.com that Kaye had since resigned from his position at the company.
As DailyMail.com exclusively reported, sources close to Kaye claimed he was threatened, shouted anti-Semitic slurs and doused with a mysterious liquid shortly before he was filmed hitting the woman.
The insiders said the viral clip does not capture the entire altercation, which began when a group of four female supporters of the Queers for Palestine movement allegedly began taunting Kaye – who is of Jewish descent – as he returned from dinner.
Kaye reportedly told the group they were “on the wrong side,” after which the women ganged up on him, the source said.
“You could say he initiated it, but he didn’t,” a source told DailyMail.com.
“He just said, ‘You’re on the wrong side,’ and then the four of them came up to him and threw liquids at him. He didn’t know what kind of liquid it was. They were yelling at him.
“He fell or was hit in the chest, I don’t remember. But he landed on the sidewalk and the four of them were on top of him.
“He stood up, hit one as he tried to escape, and then ran.”
They also claim that footage from the now-viral video shows Kaye covered in fluid and having a stain on her back.
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Pictures obtained by DailyMail.com show Kaye’s clothes soaked in a red liquid – which he believes is Gatorade – and a pool of blood around his ankle after he was pushed to the ground.
Following the incident, posters bearing his face, home address and cellphone number were put up near his $4 million, four-bedroom townhouse in pricey Park Slope, prompting outrage among neighbors calling for the father of three to be arrested.
The clip shows the woman being thrown to the ground by the force of the blow, while a bystander tries in vain to help her.
Other viewers can be heard calling Kaye an ‘asshole’ and telling him to ‘f**k off’ – briefly catching his attention before he abruptly walks away.
The criminal investigation into the dispute is ongoing.
Kaye, who lives with his wife, owns several properties on the street, which he rents to neighbors.
In his previous job, he oversaw ten areas within Moelis’ business services division and managed “a dedicated team of bankers and … an extensive network of relationships with both strategic corporates and private equity investors,” according to his profile on Moelis’ website.
Before joining Moelis, Kaye was Managing Director at Citibank.