Uncle Peter | Episode 5: Charges, Destruction, & Realization
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
About "Uncle Peter"
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.
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"Uncle Peter" Host & Production:
Host: Ashleigh Banfield
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain material, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. |
| 0:07.3 | This is an insider's account of a colossal fall from grace, a family insider's account. |
| 0:16.6 | How a global business tycoon, a true rags-to-rich riches story, got away with decades of rape and sex trafficking. |
| 0:26.6 | Peter Nygaard was once an icon of his family, but now he sits in a Canadian jail cell, nothing more than inmate number 100153-7716. |
| 0:40.3 | He was once one of the richest men in Canada, idolized by both his family and his community. |
| 0:49.3 | How are you? |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to the War at Ohio. I was selling tons of your clothes last time. |
| 0:57.0 | He fashioned himself an international playboy, and society agreed. |
| 1:02.0 | Yet that playboy image wasn't so playful. |
| 1:08.0 | It was dark, dangerous, and destructive. He's always been a spectacle. One part Liberace, |
| 1:17.5 | one part Hugh Hefner, and one part Fabio, with his flamboyant fur coats, open shirts, and long, |
| 1:25.1 | flowing blonde hair. But he's also been described as worse than Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill |
| 1:33.3 | Cosby combined. |
| 1:37.3 | Today, Peter Nygaard is locked up for the sexual assault and rape of multiple women. |
| 1:43.3 | And he's also facing several more criminal |
| 1:45.1 | trials across Canada and the US. On top of that, he stands accused of the rape and trafficking |
| 1:51.6 | of more than 130 women who've signed on to a class action civil suit. But here's the thing. |
| 1:59.2 | It's estimated that there are so many more victims, maybe even thousands, who haven't yet come forward and likely never will. |
| 2:09.6 | Women who Nygaard typically lured with the promise of modeling contracts that would make them famous. |
| 2:15.5 | Or maybe he'd offer a lifestyle of glamour and excess that |
| 2:19.0 | they could never achieve on their own. |
| 2:20.8 | We love you, Peter! But some he didn't even bother to entice. Instead, they say he just drugged |
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