Convicted fashion mogul Peter Nygard on Monday was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting several women inside a secret bedroom suite at his company’s Toronto-based offices.
An Ontario judge denounced Nygard as a “sexual predator” and a “Canadian success story gone very wrong” during a hearing in a Toronto courtroom, the Toronto Star reported.
Nygard, the Finnish-born mogul whose family immigrated to Canada, where he built his affordable women’s clothing brand up from a store in Winnipeg into an empire that expanded throughout North America, was convicted in November on four counts of sexual assault.
He has been fighting extradition to the US since 2022, but earlier this year, a Manitoba court ordered the mogul to surrender to US authorities to face sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
In December 2020, federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed a nine-count indictment against Nygard alleging that he enticed young and impoverished women to his estate in the Bahamas with cash and promises of modeling opportunities.
At least 10 women filed suit against Nygard in New York, alleging that they were as young as 14 or 15 years old when he gave them alcohol or drugs and then raped them.
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