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Fashion designer and founder of the fashion corporation Peter Nygard
The press is actively discussing another sex scandal, the main participant of which was the founder of the Nygard fashion empire.
Fashion designer and founder of the fashion corporation Peter Nygard was arrested on charges of trafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation, extortion and other crimes involving dozens of underage women and girls in the United States, Canada and the Bahamas. Correspondent.net says the details.
Girls are the fountain of youth
Police in the Canadian city of Winnipeg in Manitoba have arrested the director of the Nygard International fashion corporation, Finnish-Canadian billionaire Peter Nygard, who is charged with rape, human trafficking and extortion.
57 women filed a sexual assault lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. Two victims were 14 years old at the time of the rape. These events took place in 1977.
The indictment states that Nygaard often targeted girls from dysfunctional families, as well as those who had previously been abused.
Some of them were raped by the designer himself, other girls were raped and drugged by his assistants to “correspond to Nygard’s sexual needs.”
Nygard, 79, was arrested at the request of the United States thanks to the extradition treaty between North American countries.
Although Canadian courts often give positive decisions in extradition cases to the United States, the process can take several years, notes the New York Times.
The court ruled to keep Nygard in a remand center until January 13.
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In addition, his two sons filed a separate lawsuit against Nygard. According to them, when they were teenagers, they were raped by an acquaintance of their father following his personal instructions. In total, the billionaire has seven children by four women.
He does not admit his guilt. Jay Prober, an attorney for the Winnipeg-based fashion mogul, says Nygard will be acquitted. Nygard’s attorney in New York, Elkan Abramovitz, declined to comment on the situation.
Peter Nygard founded the women’s clothing brand Nygard International in 1967. In 2020, he was forced out of office after the FBI looted the company’s headquarters as part of its investigation into human trafficking and sexual assault. .
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The first rape lawsuit occurred in 1980, but the case file claims the designer managed to resolve it. He was also sued for employment fraud, tax fraud, and domestic violence.
In 2015 and 2017, the FBI investigated Nygard’s trafficking case for sexual exploitation.
In 2019, the Bahamian police investigated the rape of six girls under the age of 16. Ten more women went to court earlier this year. According to them, Nygard raped them at his residence in the Bahamas.
According to the lawsuit, Nygard lured the victims to his mansion in the Bahamas, promising to get them a job at a modeling agency and then persuading them to have sex. They also said that he was a human trafficker. Another 36 victims have joined the rape lawsuit in the spring.
Over the years, Nygard has positioned himself as a playboy, calling the young women and teenagers he surrounds “a fountain of youth”; He talked about this in a video about his anti-aging methods.
The indictment also states that Nygaard forced dozens of his victims to engage in “commercial sex.” He also used threats and promises to provide or deny the girls modeling prospects or financial support to keep them in check.
During the discussion of this story in the press, the name of Prince Andrew, the son of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who had previously been involved in a similar sex scandal with Jeffrey Epstein, came up again.
The Western press writes that Nygard was on friendly terms with the royal son. It is reported that in the early 2000s, Prince Andrew was even seen at the billionaire’s mansion in the Bahamas in the company of his then-ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
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