The millionaire investment banker who punched a woman in the face in Brooklyn earlier this month has resigned from his job, the company said Monday.
Jonathan Kaye, head of the global business services franchise at Moelis & Co. based in Manhattan, was caught punching the anti-Israel protester in Park Slope on June 8 in video that quickly went viral.
He was put on leave from the boutique firm shortly after the incident.
The 38-year-old woman told police the attack left her with a broken nose, lacerations and a black eye.
A representative for Moelis confirmed on Monday that Kaye left his high-paying job, without further comment.
Kaye, who lives in a Park Slope brownstone worth more than $3.7 million, declined to comment when reached by The Post.
Kaye, who is Jewish, and the unidentified woman reportedly got into a verbal spat about the Israel-Hamas war.
A source close to Kaye told The Post on Monday that he was getting ice cream for his children when he turned the corner and ran into a group of demonstrators taking part in a Queers for Palestine protest.
The source said Kaye was surrounded by six people who were swearing at him and then drenched in a red and white liquid.
He was “in fear for his physical safety when he was surrounded by an angry mob of agitators who surrounded him, physically assaulted him and threw unknown liquids on him,” a spokesman for Kaye told The Post.
“He was unable to identify any of these individuals and was left bloodied by the attack,” the spokesman said, adding that “given the sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents, any Jewish person in this situation would naturally feel threatened and felt the need to protect themselves and return safely to their family.”
A spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office told The Post on Monday that a criminal investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Since the video went viral, Kaye has been subjected to death threats and “a campaign of personal destruction,” which has been “traumatic and devastating,” the rep said.
“Mr. Kaye will cooperate fully with the authorities to resolve this matter and clear his name.”
He had previously claimed the woman threw a liquid at him before he was filmed punching her.
In the video, a shocked Kaye is seen walking away from the woman with his jacket covered in liquid.
“That king threw the st on me,” Kaye is heard saying as onlookers shouted that he was an “a-hole” and a “terrible person”.
Last year, Kaye gave a podcast interview during which he preached about mentoring young bankers while reflecting on the keys to success.
“You have to learn the hard skills as soon as you can, but in the end, it’s really the skills of courage and resilience, learning how to listen, understanding what’s motivating other people and empathy — these they are the essential skills that separate you from a calculator,” he told the LSE Focal Point Podcast.
Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview, Kaye spoke about his “rough” start in the industry and how “Wall Street could be a ruthless place.”
Kaye urged future employees to commit to “doing what you say you’re going to do, being consistent, managing your reputation carefully, managing difficult people carefully and staying away from toxic people.”
“I learned some of the basic concepts that maybe seem obvious, but when you’re in your 20s, you have to learn it all over again,” he said.
Prior to his role at Moelis, Kaye was managing director of global mergers and acquisitions at Citibank.
Additional reporting by Emily Crane and Katherine Donlevy