Peter Nygard, the former public face of the Nygard International clothing brand empire, was found guilty on four counts of sexual assault on Sunday by a Toronto jury, The New York Times reports. He was found not guilty on one count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.
The verdict is the first criminal conviction for Nygard, 82, who has been in jail for the last two years and is expected to stand trial on charges of sex crimes in Montreal in June 2024, and also in Winnipeg, though a...
The verdict is the first criminal conviction for Nygard, 82, who has been in jail for the last two years and is expected to stand trial on charges of sex crimes in Montreal in June 2024, and also in Winnipeg, though a...
- 11/12/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Peter J. Nygard and Louis Bacon were two of the world’s richest men, who also happened to be neighbors in a posh corner of the Bahamas. A bitter feud between the billionaire hedge fund operator and the Canadian fashion mogul, one that initally stemmed from a noise complaint, dominated headlines, and eventually led to Nygard’s arrest and indictment for racketeering and sex trafficking.
It’s a stranger-than-fiction saga that seems ripe for the big screen treatment. Well, no surprise — in a highly competitive situation, Matthew George’s Savvy Media Holdings has acquired the rights to two books on the battling one-percenters. The company has purchased the underlying material of Dick Russell’s forthcoming book “Bacon Vs. Nygard: Sex-Trafficking, Political Corruption, Murder-for-Hire, and the Takedown,” as well as Melissa Cronin’s “Predator King: Peter Nygard’s Dark Life of Rape, Drugs, and Blackmail.” The latter was published in April last year by Skyhorse Publishing.
It’s a stranger-than-fiction saga that seems ripe for the big screen treatment. Well, no surprise — in a highly competitive situation, Matthew George’s Savvy Media Holdings has acquired the rights to two books on the battling one-percenters. The company has purchased the underlying material of Dick Russell’s forthcoming book “Bacon Vs. Nygard: Sex-Trafficking, Political Corruption, Murder-for-Hire, and the Takedown,” as well as Melissa Cronin’s “Predator King: Peter Nygard’s Dark Life of Rape, Drugs, and Blackmail.” The latter was published in April last year by Skyhorse Publishing.
- 1/19/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Fashion executive Peter Nygard was indicted on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges Tuesday, months after he was accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting 10 women.
The 79-year-old Nygard, the public face of the Nygard Group empire of clothing brands, was charged with nine counts of “racketeering, sex trafficking, and related crimes arising out of a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims in the United States, the Bahamas, and Canada, among other locations,” U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York said Tuesday.
The 79-year-old Nygard, the public face of the Nygard Group empire of clothing brands, was charged with nine counts of “racketeering, sex trafficking, and related crimes arising out of a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims in the United States, the Bahamas, and Canada, among other locations,” U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York said Tuesday.
- 12/16/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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