Former Canadian vogue mogul Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years for sexual assault

TORONTO — Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was sentenced Monday in a Toronto courtroom to 11 years in jail for sexually assaulting 4 girls. The choose known as the 83-year-old a “sexual predator.”

Justice Robert Goldstein mentioned Nygard confirmed no empathy for his victims, who have been all attacked in his firm’s places of work. The choose mentioned one among a number of aggravating elements within the case was the truth that one of many victims was simply 16 years outdated on the time.

Nygard was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault in November however acquitted of a fifth depend in addition to one depend of forcible confinement. He faces separate sexual assault and intercourse trafficking costs in Montreal, Winnipeg and the U.S.

Nygard has denied all allegations towards him.

Nygard, who as soon as led a girls’s vogue empire, arrived on the courthouse in a wheelchair, and didn’t deal with the court docket when given the chance. His time behind bars will come to rather less than seven years after accounting for time served. He might be eligible to use for parole in two years.

The costs towards Nygard stemmed from allegations relationship again to the Nineteen Eighties till the mid-2000s.

Throughout his trial, 5 girls — whose identities are protected by a publication ban — testified they have been invited to Nygard’s Toronto enterprise headquarters underneath pretexts starting from excursions to job interviews. All of the encounters resulted in a top-floor bed room suite the place 4 of the ladies have been sexually assaulted.

A number of girls instructed the jury related tales of assembly Nygard on a aircraft, at an airport tarmac or at a nightclub after which receiving invites to return to his headquarters. All 5 girls mentioned their conferences or interactions with Nygard ended with sexual exercise that they didn’t consent to.

Nygard’s lawyer had argued for a six-year sentence, citing her consumer’s age and poor well being, whereas the Crown sought a sentence of 15 years.

The choose dismissed the argument for a shorter sentence, saying that Nygard has been receiving particular remedy in custody as a result of his numerous well being points and that his superior age is just not motive sufficient to restrict the sentence.

Goldstein additionally advised Nygard had been exaggerating his well being points in his submissions to the court docket.

Nygard’s lawyer beforehand argued in court docket {that a} prolonged sentence can be “crushing” for her consumer, who has Kind 2 diabetes and deteriorating imaginative and prescient, amongst different well being points.

Goldstein known as Nygard “a Canadian success story gone very fallacious.”

Nygard based a vogue firm in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1967 that finally grew to become Nygard Worldwide. His firm produced girls’s clothes underneath a number of model names and had company amenities in Canada and the U.S. His shops all through Winnipeg have been as soon as draped together with his pictures.

Nygard stepped down as chairman of the corporate after the FBI and police raided his places of work in New York Metropolis in February 2020. The corporate has since filed for chapter and entered into receivership.

He was first arrested in Winnipeg in 2020 underneath the Extradition Act after he was charged with 9 counts in New York, together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs.

In Might, Manitoba’s highest court docket dismissed Nygard’s utility for a judicial overview of his extradition order, discovering there was no motive to intrude with the order issued by then-justice minister David Lametti.