A CEO in the finance industry is in trouble with the federal authorities. He is accused of assaulting a fellow passenger on a cruise ship. The incident occurred after the CEO’s wife requested the passenger to refrain from dancing barefoot. The passenger retaliated by using inappropriate language towards the CEO’s wife, resulting in a physical altercation.

Kenneth DeGiorgio, the 53-year-old CEO of Southern California mortgage lending company First American Financial, attacked the other man in one of the Virgin Voyages ship’s cocktail lounges Monday while telling him, “I’ll f—king kill you,” according to a federal complaint.

The other passenger, only identified by the initials M.A., later told federal investigators he “felt as if his throat was going to be ripped out,” the documents said.

The fracas erupted early Monday in international waters off Martinique after the CEO’s wife, Nichol DeGiorgio, asked M.A. to stop dancing barefoot in the Resilient Lady’s “On the Rocks” bar, telling him, “Look we are all grown-ups here, can you put your shoes on?”

“Shut up you f—king bitch,” M.A. allegedly shot back while also flipping the bird, the documents said.

DeGiorgio was then seen on surveillance footage crossing the dance floor and attacking the cursing cruise passenger, grabbing him by the throat and forcing him to the ground, according to the complaint.

Security was called and the ship’s captain ordered DeGiorgio to be confined to his room until the next port of call.

The ship’s security contacted the FBI to report an assault when they pulled into San Juan, Puerto Rico the following day.

Nichol DeGiorgio blamed herself for asking M.A. to put his shoes on, while telling agents the other man “never touched her.”

DeGiorgio refused to speak to the feds without his attorney, according to the complaint.

He is charged with assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

The Post has reached out to the Degiorgio’s Santa Ana-based company for comment.