{"id":798715,"date":"2026-07-13T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:39:19","slug":"fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-sexual-assault-trial-begins-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798715\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion mogul Peter Nygard sexual assault trial begins in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783931959_726_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Nygard arrives at a courthouse in Toronto on Tuesday, Oct.3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Cole Burston<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 13, 2026 | 2:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Fashion mogul Peter Nygard will face sexual assault and forcible confinement charges at the Montreal courthouse today.<\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old, who founded the now-defunct women\u2019s apparel company Nygard International, denied accusations that he used his position to lure women and girls. <\/p>\n<p>Quebec prosecutors charged Nygard with one count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged events would have taken place between November 1997 and November 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Nygard arrives at a courthouse in Toronto on Tuesday, Oct.3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Cole Burston By The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-798715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}