Here's proof that's bound to pun a downer on your 50 Shades of Grey fantasies. This expose printed in the New York Post involves Edward Sonderling, a 53-year-old Ivy-league graduate investment banker who had been in a BDSM relationship with a 27-year-old live-in slave called Frankie Santiago.

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Santiago had been Sonderling's "slave" for three years, until she discovered he'd been seeing someone else.  Things quickly took a turn for the worse, leading to an all-out fight, 40 threatening text messages, and stalking charges:
The submissive [Frankie] Santiago exploded in a fit of rage, law-enforcement sources said, allegedy shattering Sonderling's car windshield and bombarding him with dozens of text threats. [...]

Santiago - who is known in the bondage-domination S&M community as Althea Lyn - was arrested Monday after what sources said was a knock-down, drag-out fight with [Edward] Sonderling at the East 57th Street apartment where she once did his daily bidding.

She was arraigned yesterday on charges of stalking, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.
Sonderling, a Brown and Horace Mann graduate and CEO of his own investment firm, Priority Investors LLC, refused to comment, and Santiago didn't respond to reporters.