Law suit: Brooklyn teen looking for receptionist job at Midtown law firm was forced to strip and have sex with lawyer during interview

A 19-year-old Brooklyn woman was forced to strip and have sex during a job interview — for a receptionist gig — at a high-profile law firm, a new lawsuit alleges.

Denisse Villalta, now 21, claims lawyer Sunny Barkats forced her to have sex with him during the interview and told her “she now belonged to him and that she would be required to have a threesome with him and his wife,” according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court.

“I was very confused as to why the interview was going in the direction it was going,” Villalta said of the allegedly demeaning October 2014 meeting. “I was very scared, I just felt very threatened.”

Villalta said she only agreed to take the job because she was broke.

“I was really young,” she said. “I didn’t really understand much.”

The next day, when she arrived at the posh Midtown offices of JS Barkats PLLC, Barkats allegedly forced her to again have sex with him and “began to forcefully choke and threaten” her, saying, “ ‘If I catch you with someone else, I will kill you. You belong to me,’ ” the suit claims.

Barkats — who bills himself as a “top corporate and securities attorney” — allegedly promised Villalta promotions, gifts and a Manhattan apartment if she continued to be “obedient.”

On her second day at the job, Barkats, 42, told Villalta she would have to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases to keep the position, the suit says. Villalta left the office, claiming she was en route to the STD test, but she never returned, she says.

When Villalta didn’t show up that afternoon, the lawyer began to send threatening texts, including one in which he held up a steak knife, the suit claims.

Barkats — who was sued in 2013 by ex-client Lil’ Kim, who alleged he tricked her into bad licensing agreements — vehemently denied Villalta’s charges.

“This is completely ludicrous,” he told the Daily News on Wednesday night. “It’s completely ridiculous, but you know, justice will be served and we’ll go all the way with that.”

Barkats also said “This is complete b------” and that Villalta is his brother-in-law’s ex-girlfriend and looking to settle a score.

Villalta’s lawyers, Alexander Coleman and Pooja Bhutani of Borrelli & Associates, PLLC, said she had never heard of Barkats prior to the interview.

“Quid pro quo sexual harassment is blatantly illegal,” Coleman said. “No woman of any age entering the workforce, let alone a 19-year-old, should have to endure what our client did.”

They are seeking unspecified damages.