FOG BLOG FASHION NEWS: FORMER FASHION MOGUL PETER NYGARD CHARGED IN CANADA AND U.S.

Peter Nygard charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement by Toronto police...Former fashion mogul in custody in Manitoba awaiting extradition to U.S. on other chargesToronto police have charged former fashion mogul Peter Nygard with multiple counts of sexual assault, The Fifth Estate has learned.

Sources say Nygard faces nine counts in total, involving six women, one of whom was a minor at the time of the alleged assault. The charges, which were laid on Wednesday, include six of sexual assault and three of forcible confinement.

All of the alleged assaults took place in Toronto between the mid-1980s and the mid-2000s.

Word of the Toronto charges comes as Nygard, 80, remains in custody in Manitoba, where he is awaiting extradition to the United States after his arrest nine months ago on charges filed in court in the southern district of New York, including for sex trafficking and racketeering.

Nygard agreed to move forward with the extradition process to face those charges at a hearing in Winnipeg Friday morning.

The U.S. charges relate to "a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct" involving dozens of women in the United States, the Bahamas and Canada, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.....The women involved in the Toronto charges were informed Wednesday. One woman, contacted by CBC, welcomed the police action.

"It's fantastic.… Finally the bleeding is going to stop. That's all I can say," she told The Fifth Estate.

As a victim of an alleged sexual assault, the CBC is protecting her identity.

"I'm a fighter," she said. "I wasn't going to let him get the better of me."

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The Toronto police investigation into allegations of sexual assault involving Nygard was first reported by APTN in April 2021.

Shannon Moroney, a Toronto-based therapist who supports dozens of Nygard survivors in her practice, said she's relieved to finally see charges laid in Canada.

"These charges offer validation and hope to survivors who have hidden in the shadows for years, many believing they were Nygard's sole victim and that justice would never come for them," Moroney said in an email statement.

"I know that they all share their charges with their survivor sisters everywhere who may or may not have charges laid in their own names."