Uncle Peter | Episode 3: The Tentacled Tyrant

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The abduction of a teenage tennis student, the lawyer representing 135 Nygard victims, there was no escaping the wrath of Peter Nygard. In episode 3 of Uncle Peter, if it wasn’t brutal and violent sexual abuse, Peter Nygard was verbally and financially abusive to almost everyone who worked for him, and employees lived in paralyzing fear of Nygard. And we ask the question on everyone’s mind: how responsible were the people who surrounded and enabled Nygard as his niece Angela is hit with a massive lawsuit?

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Growing up, he was always "Uncle Peter" to me. Peter Nygard was my best friend's uncle, but would one day become the world's most reviled serial rapist. How did it happen? What made him into this monster? We opened up Peter’s secret vault of exclusive pictures, videos, phone calls, messages, memos, letters… even his little black book. Together, we recount the last 40 years... growing up with him... living with him... working for him... and being swept up in the criminal and civil cases that brought down his empire.

"Uncle Peter" Host & Production:
Host: Ashleigh Banfield
Senior Writer Producer: Adrienne Klein
Senior Editor: Elizabeth Choi
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Yuskaitis

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0:00.0	This episode may contain material, which may be unsuitable for some listeners.
0:09.5	Peter Nygaard is a serial sex criminal who openly flaunted horrendous, deviant sexual behavior for decades.
0:19.9	This is your new home watch up for her.
0:21.6	This is your new home right here.
0:23.6	Oh, awesome.
0:24.6	I'm going to be here all the time, then.
0:26.6	That's what I want.
0:27.6	Can't come over here?
0:28.6	Wonderful.
0:29.6	Remember a gummy?
0:30.6	Yeah, remember a good.
0:32.6	I remember a guy.
0:33.6	At 83, he's spending the remaining years of his life behind bars in Canada.
0:40.3	He's been sentenced to 11 years in prison, following guilty verdicts on four counts of sex assault going back as far as the late 80s.
0:48.3	In January of 2025, he's scheduled to face trial again, this time in Montreal on one count of sex assault and
0:57.1	forcible confinement. After that, there's another sex assault trial awaiting him in Winnipeg. And once
1:04.9	he clears that trial, it's off to New York to face a daunting federal trial in the U.S.
1:12.5	And as if that's not enough, there is also a whopping class action civil suit
1:17.6	that will kick in once all the criminal litigation wraps up,
1:21.7	a suit where at last count, 135 women alleged that he attacked them too.
1:29.3	But these cases only scratched the surface of the rape and sex trafficking that Nygaard is alleged to have committed over a half century.
1:43.3	We do the real people. That's our marketplace.
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