‘A sexual predator’: Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years in prison

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Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault convictions in Toronto from the ’80s to mid-2000s.

The sentence was handed down on Monday by Justice Robert Goldstein, nearly 10 months after Nygard was convicted in November 2023 of four counts of sexual assault but acquitted of a fifth count as well as one count of forcible confinement.

He will also have a 10-year weapons prohibition, a DBA order and he will be on the sex offender registry for 20 years.

Nygard has 6.7 years left to serve on his sentence after pre-sentence custody. Justice Goldstein said Nygard will be eligible for day parole in 21 months and full parole in 27 months from now.

He will also have a ten year weapons prohibition, a DBA order and he will be on the sex offender registry for 20 years. The courtroom is silent

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Nygard was a fashion tycoon and once helmed a successful women’s fashion company. He was accused of sexually assaulting multiple women at his Toronto headquarters from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.

The 83-year-old was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair with a black hoodie pulled up over his head. He has a long beard and a paper visor under his hoodie to shield his eyes from the light.

“Mr. Nygard is a sexual predator,” Justice Goldstein said during the sentencing.

Goldstein spoke to how some of the women testified that they told family or friends about the sexual assaults but didn’t go to police because they were advised it would be “her word against his” and they would not be believed. “He was a rich and powerful man,” Justice Goldstein said.

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