The ex-girlfriend of left-wing billionaire George Soros, the Brazilian actress Adriana Ferreyr, is suing him for rape, alleging that he and several other plaintiffs including the Washington Free Beacon and the trustees of Columbia University colluded in a campaign to harass, intimidate, and defame her. She is seeking over $38 billion in damages.
Ferreyr, who dated Soros for several years when she was in her 20s and he was in his 70s, alleges that Soros raped her after she had taken sleeping pills and couldn’t fend off his advances. She also accuses him and a host of real and perceived allies of gender-based violence, discrimination, and intimidation, citing a series of events including a 2009 dinner party in the Hamptons at which questions were “directed exclusively at male attendees.” So she spoke up. After the soiree, Ferreyr says, Soros barked at her, “Why can’t you be quiet? As a woman, you should know your place. You were there as my companion. You think you’re so smart, you’re just a woman. You have to be quiet when I take you places.”
Ferreyr commenced the lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court, the state’s trial-level court, in February 2025, though she did not file her complaint to the docket until April 2025. She did so anonymously, citing the sensitive nature of her complaint, though the complaint itself also cites media coverage of her as cause for legal action. The lawsuit was filed under seal, and the Free Beacon has been working for nearly a year to make it public, a move the court approved earlier this week.
It’s not Ferreyr’s first lawsuit against Soros. She sued him in 2011 for $50 million, accusing him of reneging on a promise to give her a $2 million Manhattan apartment and instead giving it to another woman. She also alleged that during an argument over the apartment, Soros put his arms around her neck and tried to hit her with a lamp. A New York appellate court dismissed most of her claims.
Since their split, Ferreyr says Soros orchestrated an intricate scheme of retaliation that drew in members of the media.
“By weaponizing the media and the legal system, Defendants sought to silence Plaintiff, destroy her reputation, and re-victimize her as a survivor of sexual violence,” the lawsuit states. “This conduct exemplifies the Defendants’ deliberate and systemic campaign to exploit Plaintiff’s vulnerability, inflict emotional harm, and obstruct her pursuit of justice.”
Ferreyr cites Free Beacon coverage that describes her as a “28-year-old girl,” a “mistress,” and a “Brazilian soap star.” The New York Post, which described her as a “Brazilian bombshell,” is also named in the suit.
“This choice of words is dismissive and infantilizing, suggesting she is immature,” the lawsuit states. Regarding a 2012 Free Beacon headline, “Soros denies choking 28-year-old girl,” Ferreyr argues, “Emphasizing Soros’s denial in the title and referring to Ferreyr as ‘girl’ undermines her assault claim and portrays her as a melodramatic younger woman making accusations against an elder statesman.”
Soros, through the Open Society Foundations and Open Society Policy Center, to which he is the primary donor, has donated over $2 million to the National Women’s Law Center, which administered the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund and campaigned against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, arguing that it “put women’s health, equality, dignity, and even lives on the line.” A spokesman for the National Women’s Law Center did not respond to a request for comment.
Ferreyr alleges Columbia was a part of Soros’s retaliatory scheme because it complied with a subpoena that resulted in the release of security footage showing her naked. The subpoena was issued as part of a $5 million defamation suit against Ferreyr filed in 2012 by a Columbia student, Kyle Dubensky, who said she had falsely accused him of rape.
“Despite seeking a protective order in response to an overbroad subpoena served in connection with Dubensky’s lawsuit, Columbia ultimately complied with the subpoena and released highly sensitive records—including … video footage showing Plaintiff in a state of undress—despite knowing that the lawsuit was retaliatory and based on false claims,” Ferreyr argues. It is unclear how Dubensky’s defamation suit against Ferreyr ended.
While Ferreyr’s claims would typically be time-barred under the statute of limitations, New York’s Gender Based Violence Clawback Law, passed in 2022, reopened the statute of limitations on certain claims of “gender-based violence,” allowing alleged victims to file civil lawsuits.
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