School ‘molest’ lawsuit

‘Trophy’ hair from vics

A former student at an elite Manhattan private school asserts in a $20 million lawsuit that he was molested by three staffers, including one who allegedly kept a horrific trophy — jeans with locks of victims’ hair sewn into them.

Anthony Filiberti is the second alum to sue the $50,000-a-year St. David’s School over past childhood sex abuse.

Filiberti attended the all-boys school on East 89th Street, which counts Tom Brady’s son as a student. The late John F. Kennedy Jr. attended from 1965 to 1973. Filiberti’s father was concert promoter Raymond Filiberti, whose clients included Judy Garland.

His fifth-grade homeroom teacher, Rey Buono, was the first to abuse him, Filiberti says in a Manhattan Supreme Court suit filed against the school under New York’s Child Victims Act.

Buono, 74, who is free on $50,000 bail regarding child-sex-abuse charges in Massachusetts.

A lawyer for Buono did not respond to a request for comment.

Then Filiberti met guitar teacher Chuck Jones, who got the boy to take and sell drugs and repeatedly sexually abused him while he was too high to move, according to court papers.

Jones’ prized possession: a pair of jeans with the hair of kids he was abusing woven into them, according to legal papers.

“He was proud of it. He called it, ‘All the young dudes.’ He got so many of them he turned it into a braid,” said Filiberti.

Jones allegedly had sex with St. David’s French teacher Charlie Rich in front of him, said Filiberti, who claims Rich also abused him. Neither Jones nor Rich could be reached for comment.

Relatives eventually noticed the boy’s drug profits and alerted the school. Headmaster David Hume called the abuse “socializing,” according to court papers.

“I know all about Chuck Jones,” Hume allegedly said. “You’re not to speak about this.”

Hume, who died in 2015, arranged a scholarship for Filiberti at famed Choate Rosemary Hall, the alma mater of JFK. It was a “bribe,” according to the suit.

Filiberti was later expelled from Choate for drug possession.

“The St. David’s experienced by our client and his classmates was a cesspool from which few emerged unscathed,” said lawyer Gil Santamarina. “It must be held accountable.”

The school said it asked its community to come forward with reports of abuse.

“We remain open for anyone to speak with us and are committed to investigating any allegations that we receive,” St. David’s said in a statement.