Ammar Mahmoud is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with his former wife, a native of Syria, who filed a still-ongoing civil lawsuit against him in after their short-lived arranged marriage, records show. Many of her accusations β such as an incident in which he allegedly beat her and smothered her with a pillow β mirror the abuse allegedly suffered by his ex-girlfriend Maya Willow Sias, 25, who filed her own civil lawsuit against the doctor this week.
Many counts β such as her accusation, detailed in a subsequent deposition, that he raped her on their honeymoon β were later dismissed by a judge because they fell outside a one-year statute of limitations, court documents show.
But the dismissals left many other alarming allegations more or less intact, including instances of abuse, forced injections and calculated character assassination. The claim that Mahmoud hit her and smothered her with a pillow in December was left intact, as was an allegation that he beat her with a book and locked her out of their house in the cold while she was wearing nothing but pajamas in March The lawsuit describes her as a highly accomplished doctor from Syria who first connected with Mahmoud in , striking up a correspondence.
The pair eventually married in in Staten Island. Mahmoud allegedly became verbally abusive and physically violent with her almost immediately after her move to New York, according to the lawsuit. But Nokari, who was a gynecologist, instead insisted that she examine her daughter-in-law on a computer table because she said it would be too expensive to send her to another doctor, court docs state. The original incident was dismissed from the lawsuit, but other alleged forced gynecological examinations remain part of the case, records show.
The complaint also details a vicious alleged beating by Mahmoud that carries disturbing echoes of an assault that Sias, his later model paramour, contended left her fearing for her life. Mahmoud and his mother, in court filings, disputed that the word translated to hermaphrodite. Sias has alleged that a sexually and physically abusive Mahmoud drugged and imprisoned her inside his posh pad, according to her suit.
