{"id":800333,"date":"2026-07-14T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:54:14","slug":"fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-in-montreal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800333\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion mogul Peter Nygard found guilty of sexual assault in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Court of Quebec judge in Montreal has found fashion mogul Peter Nygard guilty of sexual assault and forcible confinement. The 84-year-old, who founded the now-defunct women&#8217;s apparel company Nygard International, accepted a plea deal and did not present any evidence in his defence Monday. He appeared via video call from an Ontario prison. The Quebec case is separate from Nygard&#8217;s conviction in Toronto, where he was found guilty in 2023 of four counts of sexual assault and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Quebec Crown prosecutor J\u00e9r\u00f4me Laflamme said Nygard&#8217;s plea was unexpected and he was prepared for a 10-day trial before a judge only. Global&#8217;s Felicia Parillo has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Court of Quebec judge in Montreal has found fashion mogul Peter Nygard guilty of sexual assault and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,210510,2338,281845,281844,7739],"class_list":["post-800333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-forcible-confinement","tag-montreal","tag-nygard-international","tag-peter-nygard","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800333","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=800333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}