To acquaintances and colleagues, Edward Gene Smith appeared to be a polished Wall Street success story: a married, Harvard-educated Citibank executive who had spent years earning six-figure salaries at some of the world’s major financial institutions.
But inside his upscale Manhattan apartment, prosecutors said, Smith was concealing a horrific double life.
Behind the façade of a high-powered finance career, the 50-year-old was accused of targeting vulnerable young girls, bringing them to his Central Park-area home, then drugging and sexually assaulting them.
Now, after Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison, one of his youngest victims has described to the Daily Mail the scale of his abuse, including the disturbing spreadsheets and planning notes authorities said he kept as part of his crimes.
‘I want his penis in a jar for what he’s done to me,’ the victim, now 22, said Tuesday, shortly after Smith was told how long he would spend behind bars.
‘It is disgusting and frustrating that someone who was an executive in a place of power could live such a double life.’
Smith’s crimes came to light in late 2024, when he was arrested and charged over a series of assaults, along with alleged plans to commit further abuse.
He ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts: drugging a victim with the intent to rape her, enticing another victim to travel to New York for sex, receiving child pornography, and obstruction of justice.
Former Citigroup managing director Edward Gene Smith, 50, admitted to drugging and raping multiple women after luring them to his Manhattan apartment. He is pictured above in one of the photos allegedly taken from his dating profile
Smith once flew an 18-year-old girl to New York where he proceeded to spike her drink and then sexually assault her. The victim, who snapped the above photo of Smith, told the Daily Mail that she wasn’t allowed to move inside his apartment while he was working
The victim, who broke her silence to the Daily Mail, was just 17 years of age, homeless and estranged from her parents when she first encountered Smith in the fall of 2021 on Seeking.com.
Initially, he asked for nude photos and at one point, while she was still underage, Smith texted her: ‘I want you to stay a virgin until you come up,’ according to court papers.
When she eventually turned 18, Smith bought her a plane ticket to New York and that’s when the vile physical acts started to unfold.
‘He would make us call him Sir, Daddy Edward, big c*** or big d**k master. He also had temporary tattoos with those on them, as well as BBC [big black c***], which was not the case. It was more of a LBC,’ she said of herself and his other victims.
‘He asked me to tell him about the sexual abuse I experienced as a child while he masturbated,’ she added.
‘He would make us watch videos of women being raped to see how far he could go before we would squirm.’
She claimed he would hand over what he described as ‘magical cocktail creations’ before assaulting her.
‘I would have to be naked on his bed and I wasn’t allowed to move as he worked,’ she recalled.
Smith married his wife, Heather, in 2012. He is a stepfather to several of her children. The couple have a shared home in South Carolina
Investigators uncovered a note stored on his phone listing out packing items for a trip in 2023 with one of his victims, including ‘klon’- a reference to the sedative Klonopin
Prosecutors alleged Smith, at one point, spiked the girl’s Long Island Iced Tea and then sexually assaulted her in his lair.
Unbeknownst to the teen, Smith had allegedly been posting her photos and contact information on a website advertising prostitution services.
Then, in a chilling escalation, the predatory banker allegedly drove her to a Manhattan apartment where she was forced to have sex with a man in his 50s – before Smith pocketed the cash himself, the court documents state.
Smith is also said to have allegedly encouraged her to recruit her own underage sister and friends for sexual encounters with him.
In another incident, he admitted to luring a victim to his luxury apartment at Central Park South in April 2023 where he laced her drink with the sedative Klonopin and then raped her while she was unconscious, court papers charge.
He recorded the attack and then shared the footage with an online group – named ‘Sleepy Wives’ – that was dedicated to sharing clips of incapacitated or unconscious women in sexually exploitative positions.
The moneyman also confessed to repeatedly drugging and sexually assaulting a struggling 20-year-old college student who he had convinced to relocate to New York City after they met in 2019.
He proposed that she sign a document agreeing to ‘provide herself’ to him and ‘obey him without reservation’ in exchange for an apartment and living expenses but she ultimately refused to sign.
Once she arrived, Smith spent months controlling her finances and social life while simultaneously drugging and raping her, court filings show.
But prosecutors say his crimes were even more widespread – and that he allegedly confessed to preying on other victims, too.
In a note from 2024 that he stored on his phone, Smith made plans for an upcoming trip to Miami with a woman that specifically mentioned ‘klon (fri night)’ as well as various sex toys and a ‘rope for tying legs’
Smith also allegedly made a note in his phone of punishments he planned to carry out on one woman after discovering during on a trip to Miami in 2021 that she was texting with another man
Smith allegedly paid one victim $2,500 to spend two nights with him back in 2015. Years later, he drew up a chilling spreadsheet titled ‘girl retrospective’ that laid out a fresh plot to allegedly drug her all over again, according to court papers.
‘Alcohol and drink kit: DRUGS!! 4 capsules full of dissolved k [Klonopin] 2mg,’ his notes allegedly read, followed by a reminder to ‘ask about other porn work she’s done.’
Another woman was later photographed in bondage positions and ‘hanging from a device,’ according to court filings.
Smith’s own planning document for that alleged encounter was blunt: ‘Give shots and f***,’ he wrote, before plotting to ‘plug Ambien before bed.’
In the notes section of his phone, Smith allegedly kept a detailed document regarding a trip he took to Miami with one young woman in mid-2021, the court filings show.
After he went through her phone and realized she was texting other men, Smith apparently jotted down ‘punishments’ he wanted to inflict on her.
‘My revenge: turning her into a mindless, sex crazed, prostituted, comoletey (sic) dependent, sex slave w***e,’ he allegedly wrote.
In other notes retrieved from his devices, Smith penned what appeared to be a packing list for a trip in 2023 that included ‘canned cocktails’ and ‘klon’ – or Klonopin.
In another note from 2024, Smith made plans for an upcoming trip to Miami with a woman that specifically mentioned ‘klon (fri night)’ as well as various sex toys and a ‘rope for tying legs.’
After his home was raided by the FBI, Smith paid a woman more than $2,500 to sign a fabricated letter (pictured above) attempting to clear his name. He also later texted her: ‘Please delete these messages from your chat!’
The 50-year-old admitted to drugging and raping multiple women in his upscale Manhattan apartment
But far beyond the horrific allegations laid bare in court documents, prosecutors said Smith’s sick tendencies dated back almost two decades before his arrest.
In 2005, he created a fake online persona named ‘Cindy’ to trawl Craigslist for stories about rape and drugging women, quizzing strangers for details: ‘I’m curious – how did you drug her?’
By 2008, the predator had moved from fantasy to targeting children directly.
Using the email address ‘newyorkfinancier@gmail.com’ and describing himself as a ’32yo finance professional, fit and good-looking… well-educated,’ he once offered a 17-year-old girl a room in his ‘upscale condo in the heart of Manhattan’ in exchange for her ‘complete obedience, both in and out of the bedroom.’
Smith also sent an almost identical pitch to a second girl who was just 15 years old.
When she raised concerns about her age, he brushed off the danger, writing: ‘I don’t relish the thought of your parents and possibly law enforcement out there trying to track you down.’
‘The only way I could imagine that would work is if you were truly willing to make a clean break from your home life, with minimal contact with family and friends,’ he added.
After some ‘direct sex-related questioning’ frightened her off, he pressed on regardless: ‘We’ll have to be comfortable talking about things… if we’re to make this work down the road.’
Months later, still posing as ‘Cindy,’ Smith targeted a fresh set of victims – young women and girls who’d posted online saying they planned to run away from home – redirecting them to a separate email account under his control.
In another case, Smith secretly photographed a victim unconscious – one of dozens of similar images of unconscious, naked women he kept meticulously organized into folders by name.
He fitted her with a restraining device that locked her hands and feet before assaulting her – and once dragged her naked into the apartment hallway as punishment.
Smith also installed a keylogger and hidden cameras to spy on her every move, boasted that he owned a gun and chillingly claimed he’d once set a church on fire.
He forced her to watch pornography of ‘young-looking females who appeared to be asleep, unconscious, or dead’ – and branded her a ‘b***h, s**t, and w***e.’
The Harvard educated bigwig, who was most recently a Citigroup managing director, hid ‘behind the façade of a well-educated bank executive’ to prey on and lure in his young victims to his apartment opposite Central Park (pictured above), according to prosecutors
As the investigation into Smith unfolded, FBI investigators noted they found more than 9,000 unique files of child sexual abuse material in Smith’s possession.
Stretching back to 2012, the files had been organized across multiple devices.
Prosecutors say the material depicted the abuse of prepubescent children, toddlers and infants, as well as his six adult victims.
After FBI agents raided his home in 2024, Smith frantically searched ‘child porn defense others had access to computer,’ according to court documents.
He then paid a woman more than $2,500 to sign a fabricated letter attempting to clear his name and later texted her: ‘Please delete these messages from your chat!’
After he was busted, Smith sensationally tried to argue that he was autistic and that the diagnosis left him unable to properly perceive the emotional impact of his actions on his victims.
Prosecutors, however, blasted the excuse as ‘an offensive smear to those in the autistic community.’
‘He is a sexual predator, a serial rapist, an avid CSAM collector, and someone who has demonstrated no respect for the humanity of anyone else’, prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing submission to the court.
‘Society needs protection from him. His victims deserve justice.’
Smith, who studied particle physics on a full scholarship at Harvard, built a two-decade career in high finance, working his way through Oliver Wyman, State Street, Santander and BlackRock.
He landed at Citigroup in 2021 as a managing director, earning a $400,000 base salary with a $1 million target bonus.
A Citi spokesperson said Smith was fired as soon as the bank learned of the initial probe in 2024.
‘We moved to terminate Mr Smith immediately upon learning about law enforcement’s initial investigation, well before the allegations of this depraved behavior came to light,’ the spokesperson said.
‘We cooperated with law enforcement as they sought justice for the victims of these heinous crimes.’
In his private life, Smith and his wife Heather tied the knot back in 2012.
In pre-sentencing memos, his attorneys had begged for leniency on the basis that his wife, who has several children from a prior relationship, was planning to file for divorce once the court proceedings are over.
The couple had been spending large amounts of time apart ever since Heather relocated from New York in 2018 to help care for a grandchild with cerebral palsy.
The government has moved to seize and force the sale of the couple’s shared home in South Carolina to help pay restitution to his victims.
