Peter Nygard was found guilty of numerous works of sexual assault earlier this month in Toronto, and as a result, the City of Winnipeg has stripped him of the state’s highest honor.
The president’s office said in a statement on Saturday that the original style mogul and now-convicted sex offender lost his code to the city earlier this week after Mayor Scott Gillingham requested that it be revoked.
St. Norbert-Seine River County spoke at a Thursday town committee meeting. Nygard’s “recent judge trials, including his faith,” according to Markus Chambers,” call into question the respect and honor the key to the city represents,” and he enquired as to what actions were being taken in response.
In response, Gillingham said he had asked the convention officer for the city to remove Nygard’s name from the list of recipients of city keys.
According to Gillingham’s company, this is the first time a receiver has ever had their honor taken away.
Sam Katz, the city’s then-mayor, presented the honor to Nygard in 2008, who had founded the clothes business Kygard International in Winnipeg in 1967.
On November 12, a jury found Nygard guilty of four works of sexual abuse after he was charged with assaulting five people in the private room set in his downtown Toronto business.
One of the five matters of sexual abuse and one count of forced captivity were both dismissed against him.
Nygard has been in prison since December 2020, when he was detained in a Winnipeg house after being accused of nine sex-related offenses in New York. On those costs, he faces extradition to the United States.
Due to his legal fees, 10 women accused him in February 2020 of raping them at his seaside mansion in the Bahamas and running what they called a” sex trafficking ring.” Eventually, other parties joined that lawsuit, which was postponed after that time.
Following the filing of the group activity, Winnipeg governor Brian Bowman declared in February 2020 that the city may reclaim the key, an honor given to those who have made significant contributions to the community, if the costs against Nygard were found to be true in court.
The governor at the time deemed the accusations against Nygard “grotesque,” according to Bowman’s director.
Nygard, 82, is also facing two counts of forced confinement and one count of sexual assault in Quebec. On those expenses, he is expected to stand test in Quebec in June 2024.
He is also accused of sexual assault in Manitoba, where his next court appearance is scheduled for December8.
He has continuously refuted every charge brought against him.