{"id":798979,"date":"2026-07-13T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:44:08","slug":"fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-sexual-assault-trial-begins-in-montreal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798979\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion mogul Peter Nygard sexual assault trial begins in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gavel-1.png\" title=\"Fashion mogul Peter Nygard sexual assault trial begins in Montreal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gavel-1-634x312.png\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\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<p>The alleged victim\u2019s identity and the evidence presented at a preliminary hearing in January 2025 are covered by a publication ban.<\/p>\n<p>The case is separate from Nygard\u2019s conviction in Toronto, where he was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault in 2023 and sentenced to 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Fashion mogul Peter Nygard will face sexual assault and forcible confinement charges at the Montreal courthouse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-798979","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\/798979","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=798979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}