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		</div><p>US federal authorities have raided the Manhattan headquarters of the Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard amid claims he trafficked and sexually assaulted dozens of teenage girls and women.</p>
<p>The FBI searched the designer’s Times Square offices on Tuesday less than two weeks after 10 women filed a lawsuit accusing Nygard of enticing young and impoverished women to his estate in the Bahamas with cash and promises of modelling opportunities.</p>
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<p>Several plaintiffs in the suit said they were 14 or 15 years old when Nygard gave them alcohol or drugs and then raped them.</p>
<p>Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, confirmed the raid but declined to comment on the investigation.</p>
<p>Nygard denied the sex trafficking claims through a spokesman, calling them “fabricated and manufactured”.</p>
<p>His spokesman said: “Nygard welcomes the federal investigation and expects his name to be cleared.</p>
<p>“He has not been charged, is not in custody and is cooperating with the investigation.”</p>
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<p>The spokesman added that Nygard was stepping down as chairman of Nygard International and will divest his ownership interest.</p>
<p>He added that Nygard does not want his legal battles to distract employees, who rely on the company for their livelihoods.</p>
<figure id="attachment_150372" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-150372" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-150372" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/9773D3FC-B6BA-4784-AD58-7E2282503650.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-150372" class="wp-caption-text">US federal authorities raided Nygard’s Manhattan headquarters</figcaption></figure>
<p>Nygard International began in Winnipeg as a sportswear manufacturer. Its website says its retail division has more than 170 stores in North America.</p>
<p>The class-action lawsuit says Nygard used his company, bribery of Bahamian officials and “considerable influence in the fashion industry” to recruit victims in the Bahamas, United States and Canada.</p>
<p>It alleges he plied the young women with drugs and alcohol during “pamper parties” and kept a database on a corporate server containing the names of thousands of potential victims.</p>
<p>Nygard’s victims would have their passports taken from them when they were flown into the Bahamas, the lawsuit alleges, adding the designer “expected a sex act before he was willing to consider releasing any person” from his estate.</p>
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<p>His spokesman said authorities also executed a “search and seizure” on Nygard’s offices in California.</p>
<p>He blamed the raids on a “conspiracy” involving Louis Bacon, the billionaire hedge fund manager who owns an estate next door to Nygard’s in the Bahamas.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Mr Bacon declined to comment.</p>
<p>The New York Times reported that Mr Bacon has been involved in an epic battle with Nygard involving tens of millions of dollars and more than two dozen lawsuits.</p>
<p>The newspaper described Nygard’s home in the Bahamas, where the women allegedly were assaulted, as “a lush retreat with sculptures of roaring lions and a human aquarium where topless women undulated in mermaid tails”.</p>
<p>Five women who were not named in the lawsuit told The Times that Nygard sexually assaulted them in the Bahamas when they were teenagers.</p>
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<p>The newspaper said two women later recanted their claims, “saying they had been promised money and coached to fabricate their stories”.</p>
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