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- Banker Jonathan Kaye has left Moelis after a video appeared to show him punching a woman at a Pride event.
- Kaye was placed on leave after a video of the incident went viral on social media.
- The incident may have resulted from remarks about Israel's war in Gaza, according to a report.
A senior Moelis banker who appeared to punch a woman at a Brooklyn Pride event earlier this month has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.
The banker, Jonathan Kaye, was in charge of the investment bank's global business services franchise. As of Monday, his profile is no longer available on the Moelis website. Bloomberg reported Kaye's resignation earlier on Monday.
Kaye did not immediately reply to a request for comment from BI.
The banker was initially placed on leave shortly after a video showing the incident on June 8 went viral on social media.
The video included text that read: "This guy punched me in the face today and broke my nose and busted up my friends arm."
A Moelis spokesperson told BI at the time that it was conducting an investigation. In the video, a woman appears to fall down after being punched by a man, who the video's uploader identified as Kaye. The man can be heard in the video walking away with a stain on the back of his blazer, saying, "she fucking threw shit all over me."
The punch may have come after Kaye, who is Jewish, told someone at the event holding a Palestinian flag that they were "on the wrong side," and then had liquid poured on him by four individuals, the Financial Times reported. Kaye apparently fell to the ground and hurt his knee during the incident, the report said.
A police report filed after the incident stated that the woman who was punched lost consciousness when she fell and had a broken nose, lacerations, and a black eye, according to Bloomberg.