ANDREW LINKED TO 2ND TYCOON ACCUSED OF CHILD RAPES
Prince stayed at billionaire’s Bahamas home where alleged attacks took place
PRINCE Andrew stayed with a tycoon who is accused of raping 10 women, some as young as 14.
Fashion magnate Peter Nygard is the second of Andrew’s associates to be accused of sex crimes, following his link to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The women have filed a civil
lawsuit against Nygard, 77.
THE latest revelations of Prince Andrew’s links to a tycoon accused of a sex scandal will come as a major embarrassment to a beleaguered Buckingham Palace.
He stayed at the Bahamas mansion of fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who is facing a civil lawsuit in which it is alleged he raped 10 teenagers. Three of them were said to be only 14 and another three 15 at the time.
The claims come after Andrew quit royal duties over his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
He and then-wife Sarah Ferguson stayed at 77-year-old Nygard’s Caribbean home in 2000.
The Finnish-Canadian billionaire is accused in a New York court of luring the females to his mansion with promises that he would help them with their modelling careers.
They claimed he plied them with booze and drugs before sexually assaulting them.
According to the lawsuit, Nygard “recruited, lured and enticed young, impressionable and often impoverished children and women, with cash payments and false promises of lucrative modelling opportunities to assault, rape and sodomise them”.
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It claims they would be entertained at “pamper parties” where Nygard would have bartenders at his Mayan-themed home spike their drinks with date-rape drug Rohypnol.
His staff were instructed to find young women for the weekly parties, the lawsuit alleges.
It also claims he “initiated a scheme to purchase police protection and political cover in the Bahamas by making regular payments of tens of thousands of dollars to law enforcement, government officials, regulators and even to a former Cabinet minister who became the Prime Minister of the Bahamas”.
And it claims the businessman “paid people, using Nygard Company money, to intimidate his former ‘girlfriends’ by slashing their tyres, committing arson, paying police to threaten to arrest them and by having them followed”.
The alleged rapes took place between 2008 and 2015.
There are no criminal charges associated with any of the allegations.
Nygard’s lawyer Jay Prober said his client “vigorously” denied the accusations as “completely false and without foundation”.
He added: “Peter Nygard looks forward to fully exposing this scam, and once and for all clearing his name.”
Nygard faced three sexual harassment claims by former staff in the 1990s, all of which he settled.
Asked about 59-year-old Andrew’s stay at the mansion, the Palace said: “It is not something we are offering comment or guidance on.”