DISGRACED fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to just 11 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults.
Nygard – a pal of Prince Andrew – was found guilty of sexually assaulting four women almost a year ago.
Jailing him for 11 years today, Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said: “Peter Nygard is a sexual predator.
“He is also a Canadian success story gone very wrong.”
Canadian tycoon Nygard, 83, will have just seven years left to serve, however, having already spent time in custody.
He was convicted after a six-week trial in November last year after shamelessly pleading not guilty to all charges based on allegations dating from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.
Nygard’s victims labelled the sex offender a “monster” who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
The women described how they met Nygard on a plane, at a nightclub, or even in an airport.
He would then lure them in with fake job interviews – the promise of connections or work in the fashion industry and invite them to tour his office, before taking them to his private bedroom.
All five women said their meetings with Nygard ended in sexual activity they did not consent to.
Last year the fashion mogul said he couldn’t remember four of the five women in the case, and claimed he would have never acted “in that kind of manner”.
A jury found him guilty on four counts of sexual assault but not guilty on a fifth, as well as one count of forcible confinement.
One of the complainants said Nygard wouldn’t let her leave his private suite – which led to the confinement charge.
Others said they felt trapped in the suite, describing doors that had to be opened with a keypad code or the push of a button near the bed.
One woman said: “The actions that Nygard took have impacted my life in a debilitating way.
“I did not feel safe being seen. Therefore I did not trust men and did not engage in long-term relationships with anyone for my entire life.
“Now a 63-year-old woman, I’m deeply saddened by the lack of love in my life.”
Lisa Haba, a lawyer representing almost 60 women suing Nygard in the US, has previously said “Nygard is worse than (Jeffrey) Epstein”.
It was alleged in a civil claim brought by ten women in 2020 that Nygard ran a “sex-trafficking ring” involving girls as young as 14 from his luxury home in the Caribbean.
Lisa said in 2020: “Sadly, we understand from our exhaustive investigation that there may be hundreds of additional Nygard victims yet to come forward.
“We want these women to know that they are stronger, and their voices are more powerful than the man who inflicted this horrible abuse.
“Peter Nygard’s reign of terror has come to an end and we are committed to ensuring that he is brought to justice.”
Nygard founded a fashion firm in Winnipeg in 1967 which became the hugely successful Nygard International.
He dined with the late Queen Elizabeth and rubbed shoulders with political leaders and Hollywood stars.
Nygard long boasted about his rise from humble beginnings, as a young Finnish immigrant who built a fashion empire with almost 170 stores at its peak.
Not long after Nygard settled cases of sexual harassment against three women out of court in 2000, Prince Andrew visited the mogul’s opulent estate in the Caribbean with his ex Sarah Ferguson.
The fashion mogul and Andrew were pictured together on the holiday island.
The disgraced former fashion executive once threw lavish parties at his mansion in the Bahamas attended by celebrities and politicians including Oprah Winfrey, President George Bush Sr, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery.
The Canadian businessman, once estimated to be worth £570million, used his “power and status” to assault four women, prosecutors told the Toronto court.
Pictures published in 2020 showed Nygard aboard his distinctive chrome blue liveried private Boeing 747, dubbed the N-Force.
They alleged he invited the women to his firm’s Toronto headquarters under a professional guise, promising them tours or job offers, before luring them to his private suite where he sexually assaulted them.
Inside the bedroom was “a giant bed … and a bar and doors, doors with no handles and automatic locks controlled by Peter Nygard”, one prosecutor, Ana Serban, told the court.
Creepy footage from 2008 showed the fashion tycoon shows him dressed in a sleazy t-shirt emblazoned with the words “F**k Buddy” as he told a young woman, “I’m your new boyfriend”.
Nygard would often host what he called “Pamper Parties” at his massive island resort, Nygard Cay, where he allegedly chose girls for sex then either forced himself on them or offered them cash.
His office on the island allegedly included a “passion pit” with a sofa that instantly converted into a bed.
Events on the island were described by an attendee in investigative reporter Melissa Cronin’s book Predator King as “one big orgy”.
Nude statues modelled after Nygard’s exes, an underground dance floor with hidden cameras, and a karaoke room where Nygard would watch scantily-dressed women dance until dawn were alleged to have been key features of the resort.
