Canadian jury finds fashion mogul Nygard guilty of 4 sexual assault charges, acquits him on 2 counts

Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been found guilty of four counts of sexual assault in a Canadian court but was acquitted of a fifth count plus a charge of forcible confinement. The jury handed down the verdict on the fifth day of deliberations following a six-week trial in Toronto. Nygard, 82, had pleaded not guilty to all charges, which stemmed from allegations dating back from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Five women had testified that they were invited to Nygard’s headquarters under pretexts ranging from tours to job interviews, with all encounters ending in a bedroom suite where four of them were sexually assaulted. Nygard denied all the allegations.