D.A. Bragg Announces 116-Count Indictment Of Ryan Hemphill Predatory Sexual Assault Of Six Women In Midtown Apartment

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the indictment of RYAN HEMPHILL, 43, an attorney, for the alleged predatory sexual assault of six women between October 2024 and March 2025 in his midtown apartment. He is charged in an 116-count New York State Supreme Court indictment with 24 charges of Predatory Sexual Assault, as well as numerous counts of Rape in the First and Third Degrees, Facilitating a Sex Offense with a Controlled Substance, and Assault in the Second Degree. He is also charged with Bribing a Witness, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree, and Unlawful Possession of Ammunition and of Certain Ammunition Feeding Devices. [1]

"We allege that Ryan Hemphill raped and violently assaulted six different women in his apartment in just five months," said District Attorney Bragg. "Further, we allege that he threatened the women and used his position as an attorney to intimidate them and prevent them from reporting these crimes. This investigation is ongoing, and we have reason to believe there may be additional survivors. Our talented prosecutors and investigators, as well as our specially trained counselors, are here to support you, no matter how powerful the person who assaulted you may seem. Please call our Special Victims Division at 212-335-3400."

"The details in this case are beyond disturbing - a sustained, calculated campaign of violence and cruelty that targeted vulnerable women. This kind of predatory abuse has no place in our city and will be met with the full force of the law," said NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch. "I want to commend the detectives from our Special Victims Division and Midtown South Precinct whose meticulous work led to this indictment. And I want to thank District Attorney Bragg and his team for their unwavering commitment to pursuing justice in even the most horrific of cases."

According to court documents and statements made on the record in court, beginning on October 3, 2024, HEMPHILL subjected six women to multiple-hour ordeals of physical and sexual violence inside his midtown Manhattan apartment. He allegedly raped his victims orally, anally, and vaginally, often under threat of torture if they did not comply. He forced or tricked them into ingesting various controlled substances that rendered them unconscious or significantly impaired. He slapped and punched them repeatedly and tied them up with handcuffs and other restraints. In one alleged incident, one of the victims was left shackled to the defendant's bed for an extended period while she begged him to let her go.

HEMPHILL allegedly tortured his victims with electricity, using a cattle prod meant for livestock and a shock collar that he forced some women to wear around their necks, including while he raped them. He also allegedly tortured them psychologically by threatening them with guns and knives, urinating on them, and verbally humiliating and demeaning them. HEMPHILL convinced some of the women to confide in him about the details of their past sexual traumas, and then deliberately reenacted those acts. HEMPHILL allegedly recorded himself abusing the women on extensive cameras within his apartment.

HEMPHILL allegedly met many of the women on the websites Seeking.com (formerly known as Seeking Arrangements), SugarDaddy and SugarDaddyMeet, FetLife, and Craigslist, and offered them large sums of money in exchange for sex and companionship. In many cases, he never paid them the agreed-upon amounts, and sometimes he paid them with fake money.

HEMPHILL allegedly threatened the women, often over text message, so they would not report the assaults. These alleged threats included falsely claiming to have vast resources and connections to police and organized crime as well as using his role as an attorney to intimidate them and insisting they would be arrested instead. In one alleged instance, based on evidence retrieved from the defendant's cellphone, he drew up a contract in which he agreed to pay a woman $2,000 in exchange for dropping a complaint she had filed with the Manhattan Special Victims Squad. He also allegedly forced some victims to record videos in which they stated that they consented to being raped and tortured, then used those videos to convince the women that they would not be believed if they chose to come forward.

HEMPHILL was arrested on March 1, 2025. Upon executing a court-authorized search warrant at HEMPHILL's apartment, investigators found high-capacity magazines and hundreds of bullets; a cattle prod; large amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and fentanyl; and numerous surveillance cameras and electronics for storage with videos of dozens of women, and more.

The Manhattan D.A.'s Office's Special Victims Division investigated, leading to today's indictment.

Assistant D.A. Mirah Curzer is handling the prosecution of this case under the supervision of Assistant D.A.s Courtney Razner (Deputy Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit) and Jonathon Junig (Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit) and Executive Assistant D.A. Justin McNabney (Chief of the Special Victims Division). Senior Investigators Ariela DaSilva and Sean Ryan, and Human Trafficking Clinical Director Melissa Martinez, analyst Nina Huang, and Paralegal Ella Penson are assisting with the investigation.

District Attorney Bragg thanked the Manhattan Special Victims Squad - especially Detective Andre Arias, Detective Alfred Ortiz, and Police Officer Lauren Pando - and the Midtown South Precinct - especially Police Officer Billy Cazorla.

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[1] The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. All factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.