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Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman at Brooklyn Pride event quits job

The millionaire investment banker who slugged a woman in the face during a Pride event in Brooklyn earlier this month has resigned from his job, the company said Monday.

Jonathan Kaye, head of the global business services franchise at Manhattan-based Moelis & Co., was caught punching the anti-Israel protester in Park Slope on June 8 in the video, which quickly went viral.

He was put on leave by the boutique firm shortly after the incident.

Jonathan Kaye has resigned from his investment banking job at Moelis & Co. @hellosami/X
On June 8, he was filmed striking a woman in Park Slope. @hellosami/X
Kaye was identified as the man who slugged a woman at a Pride event in Brooklyn. G.N.Miller/NYPost

The 38-year-old woman told police that the assault left her with a broken nose, lacerations and a black eye.

A spokesperson for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office told The Post on Monday that a criminal investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Kaye declined to comment when reached by The Post.

He lives in a Park Slope brownstone valued at more than $3.7 million.

A rep for Moelis confirmed Monday that Kaye quit his high-paying job, without commenting further.

Kaye, who is Jewish, and the unidentified woman reportedly got into a verbal altercation over the Israel-Hamas war.

Kaye lives in a Park Slope brownstone valued at more than $3.7 million. G.N.Miller/NYPost

He alleged that the woman threw a liquid on him before he was filmed punching her.

In the video, a flustered Kaye is seen walking away from the woman with his jacket streaked with the liquid.

“She f–king threw s–t all over me,” Kaye can be heard saying as onlookers screamed that the attacker was an “a–hole” and a “horrible person.”

Last year, Kaye gave an interview to a podcast during which he preached about mentoring junior bankers while opining on the keys to success.

“You should learn the hard skills as fast as you can, but in the end, it’s really the skills of grit and resilience, learning how to listen, understanding what is motivating other people, and empathy — those are the indispensable 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 merciless place.”

“I learned some of the basic concepts that probably seem obvious, but when you’re in your 20s, you kind of have to learn them all from scratch,” he said.

Kaye urged prospective employees to commit to “doing what you say you’re going to do, being consistent, carefully managing your reputation, carefully managing difficult people, and staying away from toxic people.”

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

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