Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nygard was sued by 10 women who are accusing him of rape and sex trafficking. Several of them say they were under the age of 18 when the alleged assaults took place.
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The women are anonymously referred to as “Jane Does Nos. 1-10” in the lawsuit: https://dicellolevitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Complaint.pdf
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. It states that the defendants, Peter Nygard and his companies, “lured, and enticed young, impressionable, and often impoverished children and women, with cash payments and false promises of lucrative modeling opportunities to assault, rape, and sodomize them. Nygard used his considerable influence in the fashion industry, his power through corruption of officials, and a network of company employees under his direction, to groom and entice underage girls and women. Defendants knew that Nygard would use means of alcohol, drugs, force, fraud, and/or other forms of coercion to engage in commercial sex acts with these children and women, and, in many cases, with knowledge that they were less than eighteen years old. Defendants knowingly benefited from, and received value for, their participation in the venture, in which Nygard, with the Nygard Companies’ knowledge, or in reckless disregard of the fact, that Nygard would defraud, force, and/or coerce Jane Does Nos. 1-10 and other Class members—many of whom were under the age of eighteen—to engage in commercial sex acts.
The lawsuit also alleges that Nygard would make his “girlfriends” move to his Nygard Cay property, from which they could not leave without his permission. He would also have them recruit new “victims”, per the filing. They would have to travel with him throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. They were paid in U.S. currency, employed under Nygard’s companies and required to send invoices that they were providing “modeling and promotional services”.
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Reference: Court filing
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