New York plastic surgeon accused of turning model into 'sex slave' Ex-wife beaten and injected with hormones: disturbing court documents

A Manhattan plastic surgeon accused in a bombshell lawsuit of turning a model into a “sex slave” also allegedly brutalized his ex-wife and forcibly injected her with hormones, troubling court documents allege.

Ammar Mahmoud is in a bitter legal battle with his former wife, a Syrian native who filed an ongoing civil lawsuit against him in 2014 following their short-lived arranged marriage, records show.

“Plaintiff's former husband assaulted her on multiple occasions, including pushing her out of the house on a cold day without clothes on and forcibly injecting her with growth hormones so she could achieve the 'perfect body,'” one filing states.

Many of her allegations – such as an incident in which he allegedly beat her and smothered her with a pillow – reflect the abuse allegedly suffered by his ex-girlfriend Maya Willow Sias, 25, who filed her own civil lawsuit against her this week submitted by the doctor.

Bryan Swerling, who has represented Mahmoud's ex-wife in the nearly decade since she filed her lawsuit, said he knew nothing about Sias' case until it was exclusively reported in The Post on Wednesday.

“Given the allegations we made in our lawsuit years ago, it doesn’t surprise me,” he said.

The case filed in Manhattan civil court by Mahmoud's ex-wife — whom The Post is not naming because she is a victim of alleged abuse — originally contained 37 causes of action against him, ranging from assault to defamation.

Many charges — such as her allegation, detailed in a later deposition, that he raped her during their honeymoon in 2013 — were later dismissed by a judge because they were outside the one-year statute of limitations, court documents show.

But the dismissals left many other alarming allegations more or less untouched, including cases of abuse, forced injections and targeted character assassination.

The claim that Mahmoud hit her and suffocated her with a pillow in December 2013 remained, as did the claim that he hit her with a book and locked her out of the house in the cold while she was only wearing her pajamas in March 2014 .

The vile lawsuit also accuses Mahmoud's mother, Daed Nokari, a doctor, of performing demeaning gynecological exams on his ex-wife – and then spreading false rumors in Syria that her daughter-in-law was a hermaphrodite, documents say.

Nokari had moved to Brooklyn from Syria but often returned to the Middle Eastern country – where she turned to her future daughter-in-law because “she was looking for a suitable wife for her son,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit describes her as a highly qualified doctor from Syria who first came into contact with Mahmoud in 2011 and began an exchange of letters. The couple finally married in Staten Island in 2013.

The move to the U.S. was difficult for the new bride because she spoke little English at the time and was unable to work legally, which left her “totally financially dependent on her new husband and in-laws,” court papers say.

The lawsuit accuses Mahmoud and his mother of “exploiting this vulnerability.”

“In summary, (she) came to the United States from Syria to live with her husband and his mother, where she was at their complete mercy,” it said.

According to the lawsuit, Mahmoud allegedly became verbally abusive and physically violent toward her almost immediately after she moved to New York.

He was a bodybuilder who had injected himself with human growth hormone — and because he disapproved of his new bride's body, he began insisting that she take the drug and go to the gym, the lawsuit says.

When she refused to take the medication, Mahmoud allegedly injected her multiple times “forcibly and without consent” and threatened her with violence when she refused, the lawsuit says.

Mahmoud's wife once asked her mother-in-law to recommend a gynecologist, the lawsuit says. But Nokari, a gynecologist, instead insisted that she examine her daughter-in-law at the computer desk because she felt it would be too expensive to send her to another doctor, court documents say.

“Under pressure and coercion, the plaintiff submitted to this humiliating examination by her mother-in-law,” the filing states.

The original incident was dismissed from the lawsuit, but other allegedly forced gynecological exams remain part of the case, records show.

The lawsuit also details an alleged brutal beating by Mahmoud that has disturbing echoes of an assault that Sias, his future lover, claimed left her fearing for her life.

After returning home from an evening with friends, Mahmoud is said to have beaten his then-wife by “stepping on her neck, throwing her to the floor, hitting her in the face several times with his open hand and suffocating her with a pillow “which prevented her from breathing or making noise,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit alleges that in June 2014, when the couple's marriage was failing, Nokari began telling friends and family in Syria that her daughter-in-law was a hermaphrodite, using an Arabic slur.

Mahmoud and his mother denied in court papers that the word means “hermaphrodite.”

They filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife in 2019, claiming she had accused them of a “day-to-day variety of outright falsehoods.”

This case, like the lawsuit against Mahmoud's ex-wife, is still ongoing.

Mahmoud, who previously denied Sias' allegations, did not respond to The Post's questions Wednesday as he left his luxury Alinea Medical Spa office on Fifth Avenue.

Dressed entirely in black sneakers, a smock and a jacket, Mahmoud ignored a reporter while talking on the phone and entered the lobby of a building on West 47th Street.

Jonah Zweig, Mahmoud's lawyer in the case prosecuted by his ex-wife, did not respond to requests for comment.

Nokari could not be reached for comment.

Swerling, the lawyer for Mahmoud's ex-wife, said Sias' new allegations could play a role in his long-running civil case.

According to her lawsuit, Sias claimed that a sexually and physically abusive Mahmoud drugged her and locked her in his posh apartment.

She also claimed that Mahmoud shattered her eye socket and – to cover up his abuse – sadistically injected fillers into her face without anesthesia, the lawsuit says.

These accounts of abuse by Sias could potentially be used as evidence of an alleged pattern of bad behavior by Mahmoud in a possible trial over his ex-wife's claims, Swerling said.

“It appears to be repeated behavior and it is not surprising,” he said.