A woman claims she was violently raped by her boss at a Japanese nightclub, and that club owners knew the manager was dangerous, according to court papers.
The victim, a hostess at the Midtown East nightspot Club Usagi, says in a $10 million lawsuit she was attacked after hours by her allegedly drunken supervisor, Hazumu Suzuki.
Suzuki asked the woman to stay behind after a January 2017 shift to discuss work, but instead of talking, he allegedly threw her to the floor, “tore her tights and pulled down her underwear” before raping her, she claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The victim, whose identity is being withheld by The Post, claims she “repeatedly pleaded” with Suzuki to stop the attack, to no avail.
Suzuki has not been arrested. The incident is under investigation, police said.
The torn clothes were handed over to “prosecuting authorities,” the woman said in the lawsuit against Suzuki and Club Usagi owners Atsuko Kinoshita and Etsuro Honma.
When she told Kinoshita about the alleged attack, the owner admitted his manager “had a propensity for violence when drunk, so that he would get drunk and come to work with bruises that he could not explain, and that he would claim not to remember what had happened to him,” according to the legal filing.
“I cannot tell what Suzuki-San is going to do next,” Kinoshita allegedly told the woman.
Club Usagi kept Suzuki employed so he could renew his US visa, she alleges. Suzuki declined comment. Kinoshita didn’t return messages.
The owners “were well aware of his propensity for violence but nevertheless continued to employ him and to allow him to be in a position where he could consume alcohol and physically prey on women at ‘Club Usagi,’” she charges.