The millionaire investment banker who punched a woman in the face during a Pride event in Brooklyn earlier this month has resigned from his job, the company said Monday.
Jonathan Kay, head of the global business services franchise at Manhattan-based Moelis & Co., was caught punching an anti-Israel protester in Park Slope on June 8 in the video, which quickly went viral.
He was placed on leave by the boutique company shortly after the accident.
The 38-year-old woman told police 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 the criminal investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Kay declined to comment when contacted by The Post.
He lives in a brownstone in Park Slope worth more than $3.7 million.
A representative for Moelis confirmed on Monday that Kay had resigned from his high-paying job, without commenting further.
Kay, who is Jewish, and the unidentified woman reportedly got into a verbal altercation over the war between Israel and Hamas.
He claimed the woman threw a liquid at him before he was filmed punching her.
In the video, a confused Kai is seen walking away from the woman with his jacket stained with liquid.
“She f**king threw me,” Kaye can be heard saying as onlookers screamed that the attacker was an “ahole” and a “horrible person.”
Last year, Kay gave an interview to a podcast, during which he preached about mentoring junior bankers while offering his opinion on the keys to success.
“You have to learn the hard skills as quickly as you can, but in the end, it’s really the skills of grit and resilience, learning how to listen, understanding what motivates others, empathy — those are the indispensable skills that set you apart from the calculator,” he told “ LSE Focal Point Podcast”.
Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview, Kay spoke about his “rough” start in the industry and how “Wall Street can be an unforgiving place.”
“I learned some basic concepts that might seem obvious, but when you’re in your 20s, you have to learn them all from scratch,” he said.
Kay urged potential 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.”
Prior to his role at Moelis, Kay was Managing Director of Global Mergers and Acquisitions at Citibank.
Additional reporting by Emily Crane and Katherine Dunleavy
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