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New York's business elite was left shaking in its boots Tuesday after a list of alleged clients of the student prostitute in the Sarah Lawrence 'sex cult' case was inadvertently published online.

The list, which was entered into evidence under seal in the ongoing trial of accused cult leader Larry Ray, includes lawyers and businessmen and socialites throughout the Tri-state area.

DailyMail.com acquired a copy of the list of 121 names which was taken down nearly as fast as it was put up.

A top executive at The Gap clothing firm and her husband was one of two married couples included. A former New York State Supreme Court judge is also named.

Another alleged client is a painter who has studios in Manhattan's East Village and in Italy. A third is an architect, famous for designing college and university buildings.

An investment executive who was also in pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's infamous little black book of contacts is also listed.

Other names include a hedge fund manager who has donated millions to charity and has his name on a museum building in New York, a Washington DC, lobbyist who has worked for a foreign resistance movement and an international diamond dealer.

Also included is an executive at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, an account executive at Amazon and a veteran travel writer.

The document is among the government exhibits admitted in the federal case against 62-year-old Ray, who is on trial in New York, charged with operating a sex cult out of his daughter's dorm room at Sarah Lawrence College.

The list is said to have been compiled and included in an email by former Sarah Lawrence student Claudia Drury, 31, who has been on the stand giving evidence against Ray, whom she claims coerced her into becoming a prostitute.

But somehow the government posted the 'sealed' document online and then immediately scrambled to stop the information getting out.

'Per order of the Court, government exhibit #3217 (GX 3217) was admitted under seal,' a spokesman for the Department of Justice wrote in an email soon after the document was taken offline.

'This file was inadvertently loaded to the U.S. v. Ray file share. Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way, if you have downloaded this file, please delete it.'

But the department's plea is unlikely to be successful as the document has already been posted on Twitter.

The list is included in an email said to be from Drury to the Department.

'This is not an exhaustive list but it includes all my main clients/regulars and many others,' she wrote.

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flakrat said:

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Why are the calling it a "sex cult" and not a call girl operation?

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According to the federal indictment, Ray presented himself as a father figure and indoctrinated his victims under the guise of "therapy sessions," through which he manipulated them into sharing intimate details about themselves and isolated many of them from their own parents.

As part of the abuse, prosecutors said Ray would make false accusations against the students of stealing, lying, damaging his property, and even poisoning him. When they denied the accusations, he would interrogate them for hours.

Using tactics such as sleep deprivation, psychological and sexual humiliation, and physical abuse, Ray got at least seven of the victims to falsely confess to the accusations, the indictment said.

After they confessed to the crimes they hadn't committed, Ray allegedly extorted them for money and unpaid labor.

In at least one case, prosecutors said, Ray coerced one of the women students into repeatedly engaging in sex work to earn money for him.

Prior to becoming an alleged cult leader, Ray ran in powerful circles. He worked on Wall Street, despite not having a college degree, and co-owned a nightclub in New Jersey.

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Win At Life said:

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I've been in cults as both a leader and a follower. You make more money as a leader, but you have more fun as a follower.

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