Nygard Found Guilty of Sexual Assault, Forcible Confinement in Montreal Case

CANADA – Former fashion mogul, 84-year-old Peter Vygard, has been found guilty by a Canadian judge of sexual assault and forcible confinement – charges related to incidents that took place in Montreal in the 1990s.

The ruling came after 84 year-old Nygard offered no contest against evidence by prosecutors in a Montreal courthouse on Monday, the first day of his trial in the case.

Nygard’s lawyer said her client “made a strategic decision not to contest the charges” based on his extradition situation.

In 2024, in a separate case, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women in Toronto from the late 1980s to 2005.

Once his legal cases in Canada are completed, he is expected to be extradited to the U.S., where authorities claim he engaged in a “decades-long pattern of criminal conduct” involving at least a dozen victims across the globe.

Nygard has denied all the allegations against him.