Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex assaults in Toronto

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Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex assaults in Toronto
With credit for pre-sentence custody, he has 6.7 years left to serve


Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Michele Mandel
Published Sep 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read

With his head bowed and his eyes blinkered with homemade shades, disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard has finally been sentenced for the sexual assault of four young women — a harsh 11 years in federal prison.


But with credit for pre-sentence custody — as the 83-year-old ran out the clock with delay after delay — he has 6.7 years left to serve. He’ll be eligible for day parole in 21 months.

Asked before sentencing if he had anything to say, Nygard replied, “No, sir.”

As some of his victims embraced in the front row of the crowded downtown Toronto courtroom and one spectator began to applaud, the full-bearded Nygard was wheeled away in his wheelchair to begin serving his federal sentence at last.

He will also be listed on the sex offender registry for 20 years.

Ontario Superior Justice Robert Goldstein labelled Nygard a “sexual predator” who used his wealth and power to prey on young women and intimidate them into staying quiet for decades.


Nygard was convicted last November of four counts of sexual assault but acquitted of a fifth count as well as one of forcible confinement.

The judge rejected the argument by his defence lawyer — his third after parting ways with his previous two — that his age, poor health and harsh conditions at the Toronto South Detention Centre should net him a sentence of less than two years.

Goldstein found Nygard actually enjoyed very good conditions in jail in a medical wing where he had unlimited access to a phone, help with bathing and even guards willing to attend to him by flashlight so the light doesn’t hurt his eyes.

Nygard hasn’t just received special treatment, he’s received “special, special treatment,” he said.

He also said Nygard’s advanced age at sentencing is due to his being able to avoid charges for decades using the immunity of power and privilege.

Nygard’s lawyer told reporters he will appeal his convictions and sentence.

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MANDEL: Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex assaults in Toronto

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Long-delayed justice finally comes calling for Peter Nygard

Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Published Sep 09, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read

How the mighty have fallen.


Shrunken in his wheelchair, his beard long and unkempt, a parka hoodie over his head with his eyes blinkered with a visor, Peter Nygard, the once ever-tanned playboy who boasted he’d reversed the aging process now looks like what he’s become — an old, pathetic rapist destined to live out his final years behind bars.

Trapped, as he trapped so many women before.

In a crowded Toronto courtroom Monday, as some of his victims embraced and one spectator began to clap, Nygard, 83, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting three young women and a 16-year-old girl between 1988 and 2005. After credit for pre-sentence custody — he’s been endlessly delaying his sentencing since he was convicted last November — he has 6.7 years remaining to serve.


Nygard, who must also register as a sex offender for 20 years, will be eligible for day parole in 21 months and full parole in 27 months.

For his victims, though, there will be no restitution ordered, despite the Crown’s request. Still, there was the satisfaction of watching the once-powerful man who has haunted their nightmares finally being wheeled away to start serving federal time.

“We did not endure four years of hell just for ourselves. We did this to ensure every victim of sexual assault will remember this trial and feel strength and confidence to come forward and not be threatened by social status or money,” one of the women said in a statement read by therapist and advocate Shannon Moroney.

“If we can do it, so can you.”


Moroney said the victims felt validated by Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein, who found Nygard used violence, degradation and humiliation to subdue the women after luring them to his hidden bedroom suite in the downtown Toronto headquarters of his fashion empire.

“Peter Nygard is a sexual predator,” Goldstein pronounced as he began his hour-long sentencing decision. “He’s also a Canadian success story gone very wrong.”

He once dined with royalty and prime ministers; now the disgraced fashion mogul was forced to hear the judge describe him as a self-centred narcissist who used his power, status and wealth to not only prey on young women but to then intimidate them into keeping quiet for decades.


So he can’t now play the senior’s card, Goldstein said, when he was “the author of his own misfortune.”

His third defence lawyer, Gerri Wiebe, had argued Nygard should only have to serve less than two years in a provincial jail due to harsh conditions he suffered in pre-sentence custody as well his advanced age and serious medical issues aggravated by his detention.

Goldstein was having none of it.

To what must have been the egomaniac’s ultimate humiliation, the judge enumerated Nygard’s many health issues that pre-dated his incarceration, including low testosterone, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and incontinence. “I don’t accept his health has deteriorated quite as much as he presents,” the judge said, finding he was prone to “exaggeration and hyperbole.”


During second day of cross-examination, the former fashion mogul was pressed on allegations made by five women accusing him of sex assault
As for “harsh” conditions, Goldstein found that thanks to Nygard’s team of lawyers, jail records show he’s been treated with unusual care and attention: he’s been transported to court by car rather than paddywagon because he suffers from claustrophobia, while in the medical wing at Toronto South, he’s had unlimited access to a phone, been outfitted with a special bed and wheelchair, and staff enter his room with flashlights so his glaucoma-stricken eyes aren’t bothered by the glare from overhead lights.

He’s received not just special treatment but “very, very special treatment,” he noted.

Outside court, Wiebe said Nygard plans to appeal. “He’s going to continue to defend himself where he can, appeal where he can, and continue to maintain his innocence in all these matters.”

And there are many.

When Nygard’s Canadian trials and appeals are done — he still faces charges in Winnipeg and Montreal — he’s waived extradition to the U.S. where New York prosecutors claim Nygard targeted dozens of women and underage girls from poor or abusive backgrounds and invited them to “pamper parties” at his homes in the Bahamas or Marina del Rey.

So, to the relief of his many alleged victims in at least three countries, it’s probably safe to use that old cliche: Nygard will likely be leaving prison in only one way — and that’s in a pine box.

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hes a damn nygard.