Model beaten, turned into ‘sex slave’ by plastic surgeon, lawsuit claims
A plastic surgeon turned his model girlfriend into a “sex slave”, subjecting her to sickening abuse, an explosive new lawsuit claims.
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A plastic surgeon turned a glamorous model into a “sex slave”, subjecting her to sickening abuse — and tried to cover up her black eye by injecting her with filler without anaesthetic, an explosive new lawsuit claims.
Ammar Mahmoud, 40, at one point allegedly beat his ex-girlfriend Maya Willow Sias, 25, so savagely that he shattered her eye socket, according to the $US10 million (about $A15 million) suit filed Tuesday.
Ms Sias alleged that Dr Mahmoud secretly then took her to his Alinea Medical Spa in New York City, where he injected fillers around her still-swollen eye — a torturous procedure he performed with no anaesthetic, the suit states.
“He stabbed me in the face with a needle, I could feel the needle scratching against the bone,” Ms Sias told the New York Post in an exclusive interview.
The Los Angeles-based singer and model, who once appeared in Maxim, a men’s magazine, contends in the Manhattan Supreme Court suit that Dr Mahmoud is a violent drug and alcohol-abusing sex addict hiding behind the facade of a caring plastic surgeon.
She also believes Mr Mahmoud has allegedly beaten and abused other women — an accusation echoed in an ongoing 2014 lawsuit filed by the doctor’s ex-wife.
Ms Sias documented the bruises and other injuries she allegedly received at her ex’s hands during their nine-month relationship in stomach-turning photos littered throughout the 16-page civil complaint.
“There is no ‘she said’ here,” her lawyer Larry Hutcher, a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, told the New York Post.
“He literally made her into a sex slave.”
Ms Sias met the surgeon during an April 2023 visit to Miami, where they both attended a party on a yacht, according to the lawsuit.
She said that Dr Mahmoud tried to get her into a threesome with him and his girlfriend at the time.
The model declined, but said she nonetheless was charmed by him and kept in touch.
Shortly afterwards, she came to New York City for a modelling job and, after a whirlwind date that included dinner at the fashionable Meatpacking District restaurant Catch, began a relationship with him, the lawsuit states.
Dr Mahmoud allegedly love-bombed Ms Sias with extravagant gifts and trips to Miami and Dubai before he offered to ship her belongings from her home to his pad on Fifth Avenue, according to the lawsuit.
But Ms Sias soon encountered Mr Mahmoud’s dark side, including his regular abuse of the anaesthetic ketamine and 2C, a synthetic psychedelic drug, the suit alleges.
“Almost nightly, Dr Mahmoud would abuse drugs and alcohol, and force himself upon Willow at all hours of the night, irrespective of whether Willow consented to the sexual acts, or was even conscious,” the lawsuit states.
After a dinner with Dr Mahmoud on June 7, 2023, Ms Sias awoke in the middle of the night to find him allegedly partying with three sex workers in the apartment, the lawsuit states. She confronted him and he flew into a violent rage.
“After the women left, Dr Mahmoud violently hurled Willow to the ground, mercilessly punched her face and body, and smothered her face with a pillow, causing her to lose consciousness,” the suit states.
“I thought I was going to die,” Ms Sias told the New York Post.
The savage beating left Ms Sias “unrecognisable”, with her eye swollen shut, orbital bone shattered, head misshapen and body and face covered in blood and bruises, according to the lawsuit.
Dr Mahmoud apologised, but allegedly forced her to stay inside his apartment so no one could see her injuries, monitoring her location by her phone and threatening severe consequences if she tried to leave, court papers state.
The lawsuit contends during this time that Dr Mahmoud exploited his status as a medical doctor to prescribe Ms Sias antidepressants, in addition to forcing her to take ketamine to “keep her obedient and compliant”.
In late July, after Ms Sias’ bruising and swelling subsided, the cosmetic surgeon allegedly whisked her over to his clinic to treat her shattered eye socket — and cover up his abuse, the lawsuit asserts.
“Despite her obvious need for proper medical treatment, Dr Mahmoud took it upon himself to simply conceal the physical damage he had inflicted, under the guise of his own medical license, which he abused,” the suit states.
Dr Mahmoud injected fillers into Ms Sias’ eye area without anaesthetics, an act of “calculated cruelty,” according to the lawsuit.
“Willow was left physically and mentally traumatised by the torturous experience,” the lawsuit states.
“The pain from the injection was compounded by the emotional anguish of knowing that her abuser was also her only option for care, who abused his medical authority to further control and harm her,” it reads.
“I don’t get to be like I’m ‘all natural’ now because I have filler in my eye,” the model lamented to US publication.
The alleged abuse, manipulation and drugging continued for three more months, including an October 2023 incident in which a woman — who was in a guest room with Dr Mahmoud — repeatedly punched Ms Sias in the face as the doctor held her down, court papers claim.
Dr Mahmoud’s alleged sexual abuse escalated as well, “forcing her to participate in non-consensual sexual activities with strangers, sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious, and physically restraining and threatening her,” according to the lawsuit.
“Specifically, Dr Mahmoud forced Willow to participate in threesomes with prostitutes, even though she expressly told him ‘no’,” the lawsuit states.
Sias said she finally escaped Dr Mahmoud after she went to California for a job and never returned, leaving all her possessions at his apartment.
The lawsuit — which accuses Dr Mahmoud of violating the city’s victims of gender-motivated violence protection act, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence — asserts Ms Sias’ career has suffered because of her emotional and physical injuries.
The model, who now lives in LA, said she stayed in the horror with Dr Mahmoud for so long out of fear, and that she now largely keeps to herself at home.
“I was scared that he was going to retaliate and kill me,” she said.
The lawsuit states Ms Sias believes Mr Mahmoud allegedly beat and abused other women — and court records show it’s an accusation made before.
Dr Mahmoud’s ex-wife filed a lawsuit, also in Manhattan civil court, that accuses the doctor of sexually assaulting her during their short-lived marriage and forcing her to take a human growth hormone because he did not “approve” of her body.
He also allegedly repeatedly beat her, including one incident in which he smothered her with a pillow, according to the lawsuit.
Dr Mahmoud filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife in 2019, strongly denying the accusations as “outright fabrications”.
His ex-wife couldn’t be reached for comment. Both cases remain open, court records show.
Dr Mahmoud said he “unequivocally” denied the accusations and that they were not reflective of his character.
He declined further comment and said he’d be arranging legal representation.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
Additional reporting by Steven Vago and Vaughn Golden
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