A Canadian woman has come forward to tell her story publicly about being sexually assaulted by fashion mogul Peter Nygard at his seaside mansion in the Bahamas more than 20 years ago.
A Canadian woman has come forward to tell her story publicly about being sexually assaulted by fashion mogul Peter Nygard at his seaside mansion in the Bahamas more than 20 years ago.
Jane Doe 16, as she’s known in a U.S. class action lawsuit accusing Nygard of sexually assaulting and raping 46 women from around the world, was 19-years-old at the time.
She is the first Canadian from the lawsuit to step forward publicly to talk about what she says happened to her.
The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York, originally in February.
The claim says she was drugged, raped and sodomized by Nygard, who then “provided Jane Doe No. 16 to his friends for them to have sex with as well,” while she was at his palatial compound in the Bahamas in 1998.
None of the allegations in the lawsuit have been proven in court. Nygard also faces two other lawsuits in the U.S. from two separate women who also accuse him of sexual assault. He denies all of the charges.
Nygard was a millionaire fashion mogul responsible for several Canadian clothing lines, and is also one of the many powerful men to face public sexual assault litigation in recent years.
‘He said I could enjoy the beach’
Jane Doe 16 said she met Nygard through her tennis instructor in the Bahamas at the time.
“He kept referring to this person as ‘chief’ or ‘boss,’ and how he has an amazing tennis court on his property, and how he wou