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Alleged Jason Lee rape victim granted one-year order of protection

The woman accusing ex-Goldman Sachs banker Jason Lee of raping her last summer at his East Hampton rental was granted an order of protection against her alleged attacker at a hearing Friday.

A student from Ireland, the 20-year-old woman claimed that after returning home, she was harassed by an investigator hired by Lee’s defense team.

The private eye — who had a photo of the woman taken on the beach before the alleged rape — told her it revealed a bruise that she had claimed was inflicted during the Aug. 20 assault at Lee’s tony Clover Leaf Lane rental, according to a source.

The photo in question is actually a group shot that includes the victim in a bathing suit.
Prosecutor Kim Shalvey told The Post there were no bruises shown in the photo.

After the hearing in Riverhead, NY, Suffolk County Court Judge Barbara Kahn granted a one-year order of protection that bars Lee and his associates from having any contact or communication with the woman.

Last August, Lee and a friend met the woman at a restaurant before inviting her back to his $33,000-a-month pad, where he allegedly forced himself on her in the bathroom, his indictment charges.

The cops, who came to the house because of an unrelated incident, spent 45 minutes looking for Lee before finding him hiding in the back of a truck.

District Attorney Thomas Spota didn’t ask for the order of protection, which is customary in sexual assault cases, when Lee was arraigned on first-degree rape charges in September.

Shalvey told The Post that prosecutors didn’t act eight months ago because Lee’s passport had been confiscated and the woman had returned to Ireland.

Lee’s lawyers, Andrew Lankler and Edward Burke Jr., didn’t comment.

Lee, who claims the sex was consensual, wore a wedding ring in the courtroom Friday. His wife, Alicia, who had come to his arraignment, wasn’t with him.

The ex-Goldman banker was a managing director in New York overseeing convertible bond sales.

He recently left the bank.

Lee, before riding away from the courthouse in a black Jeep, told The Post that his wife, also a Goldman banker, wasn’t at the hearing because “she’s at work.”