Nygard data delete on FBI raid day: suit

Executives at Peter Nygard’s fashion company ordered employees to delete computer files on the same day that FBI agents investigating sex trafficking raided the fashion mogul’s offices, attorneys for alleged victims wrote in a new letter.

The evidence-destruction spree occurred at Nygard’s offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the Bahamas, attorney Greg Gutzler said, relaying tips he received from former employees with “direct knowledge.” The deletion of evidence occurred Feb. 25 — the same day the feds raided the Times Square and California offices of Nygard (inset), Gutzler wrote.

“We learned that Mr. Nygard’s employees and/or affiliates in the Bahamas and Winnipeg have been instructed to spoliate evidence by wiping or otherwise destroying their hard disk drives or other computer storage devices, and that data destruction is proceeding as we write this letter,” Gutzler wrote in a letter dated Feb. 26 and made public Monday. “Nygard executives ordered employees to destroy computer files and ‘clean up’ records.”

The feds launched the raid weeks after Nygard, 78, was slapped with a suit filed by 10 women claiming he abused them at drug-fueled “pamper parties” at his Bahamas mansion. The Canadian clothing king, who resigned from his namesake company, now faces abuse claims from 46 women. Some of the women say they were underage. Gutzler wrote he would ask a judge to impose sanctions on Nygard for abusing the legal process by destroying evidence. Company employees maintained a database for Nygard on more than 7,500 women and girls dating to 1987, the suit charges.

“The allegations of document destruction are categorically denied,” Nygard spokesman Ken Frydman said.

Nygard says the sex abuse allegations result from a bizarre beef with a Bahamas neighbor, hedge fund titan Louis Bacon.