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Fashion mogul Peter Nygård allegedly used firm’s head office to assault women

An older white man with shoulder-length white-gray hair combed away from his forehead, wearing a blue velvet suit jacket and bright blue scarf.
Peter Nygård at the Beverly Hilton hotel on 28 February 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Fashion mogul Peter Nygård used his power and status to lure five women separately into a private bedroom suite attached to his company headquarters where he sexually assaulted them, a court in Toronto has heard.

In opening arguments on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Nygård, 82, met the women in social settings and invited them to the headquarters of his clothing empire in Toronto. All of the “tours” ended in his bedroom suite. The room had a bed, televisions and a jacuzzi. Prosecutors say the doors didn’t have handles and the locks were controlled by Nygård.

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