Fabulous Fab — the smooth-talking bad-boy trader who played Goldman Sachs investors for fools while simultaneously romancing two French paramours — took his slick act to the Senate floor yesterday and defiantly told investigators he’d done nothing wrong.
Sporting a five-o-clock shadow and smug demeanor, French-born Goldman Vice President Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre, 31, “categorically denied” SEC charges against him, blasting: “I will defend myself in court against this false claim.”
“I am saddened and humbled by what happened in the market . . . but I believe my conduct was proper.”
Tourre’s show of bravado came on the heels of the release of e-mails that show how he wooed two women with pillow talk and mind-numbing minutia about his job in 2007.
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“Sweetheart . . . I feel blessed to be with you, to share special things with you . . . I just love you!!!” Tourre gushed to Marine Charlotte Alexandra Serres, when they both worked in Goldman’s London office.
Serres was equally smitten, telling him, “I’M JUST THE HAPPIEST WOMAN ON EARTH.”
Tourre boasted to her that he was so good that he could sell bogus products to “widows and orphans” and “the business is totally dead and the poor little subprime borrowers will not last long!!!”
Days later, Tourre declared his love for Columbia University postdoctoral researcher Fatiha Boukhtouche. He sent her an e-mail insisting her “soft and sensual feminine intervention is necessary for Fab’s survival.”
Neither Serres, who resigned her Goldman gig in October 2007, nor Boukhtouche, now a researcher for a Swiss company, responded to requests for comment.