A Canadian billionaire has been ordered to surrender two of his mansions at the request of four women who claim he sexually abused them as minors.
Robert Miller, 81, will have to foreclose on his two Montreal homes after Judge Serge Gaudet ruled against him on Friday.
Plaintiffs have argued that the two homes, each valued at $2 million Canadian, were listed under corporations in an attempt by Miller to hide his wealth.
According to Judge Gaudet, the founder of Future Electronics, also known as ‘Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein’, does not have a bank account in his own name.
He said in court documents seen by The Canadian Press: “It is disturbing to note that Miller, a billionaire, does not have a bank account in his name.”
Gaudet also noted that there had been “persistent and significant use” of other names to conceal his assets.
The four women are demanding millions from Miller, claiming they were recruited as high school students to have sex with him for money.
Miller, who is in the end stages of Parkinson’s disease, has denied all allegations against him.
Robert Miller, 80, is accused of paying at least 47 teenage girls as young as 11 for sex and convincing them to recruit their friends and classmates as new victims
In addition to the four women who filed lawsuits, he faces multiple legal actions, having been arrested in May on 21 sex-related charges involving 10 complainants.
Miller also faces a separate proposed class action lawsuit that alleges he gave money and gifts to minors in exchange for sex between 1996 and 2006.
That class action lawsuit has not yet been approved.
One of the four in the case that led to the seizure of property has claimed that in 1999, when she was 14, she was recruited to visit a man she believed was Miller.
Accompanied by a high school friend, the two girls say they went to a hotel room where a Miller associate met them before directing them to Miller, who used the name Bob.
Court documents seen by The Canadian Press say he then offered them $1,000 each for sex. They say he refused to wear a condom because of a latex allergy.
The woman claims she met Miller more than 30 times, that she was paid each time, and that the encounters ended when she was an adult.
She became dependent on the money and began struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, according to an affidavit.
After Miller was first publicly accused in 2023, he immediately stepped down as boss of Future Electronics “to focus on his very serious health issues.”
Gaudet also noted that there had been “persistent and significant use” of other names to conceal his assets. One of his houses can be seen here
Plaintiffs have argued that the two homes, each valued at $2 million Canadian, were listed under corporations in an attempt by Miller to hide his wealth. One of them can be seen here
The company said he “adamantly and vehemently denies the malicious allegations against him, affirming that they are false and completely unfounded and that they are the result of an acrimonious divorce.”
‘They are now being repeated for financial gain. A police investigation into these allegations was launched and authorities determined that they were unfounded,” the report said.
One of the women who accused him said that in 1996, when she was 17, she was lured by a modeling ad in the newspaper and went to a hotel.
Told she was “chosen,” she soon spoke to Miller on the phone and they had sex seven to 10 times over the next three years.
“Each time Appellant saw Defendant Robert G. Miller for the purpose of engaging in sexual relations, he would give her an envelope containing between $1,000 and $2,000 in cash; One time it was $3,000,” her lawsuit said.
The arrangement ended when Miller showed her a negative HIV test that had a different name than his “Bob Adams” character.
“This caused the plaintiff to become quite concerned and she looked around the hotel room and found a closet full of watches,” the lawsuit alleged.
Julie Dagenais (left), the only woman involved in the allegations to reveal her identity, claimed she narrowly avoided becoming another victim when her parents found out
Miller is often referred to as the Canadian Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is seen here in his 2017 mugshot for the New York State Sex Offender Registry
She realized she was just one of many girls being exploited, and “felt bad about herself and her self-worth, ashamed, guilty, she was depressed.”
Julie Dagenais, the only woman involved in the allegations who revealed her identity, claimed she narrowly avoided becoming another victim when her parents found out.
She said an older coworker at her minimum-wage Sears job told her she was being paid thousands for sex with a wealthy businessman.
“She told me, ‘I told Bob about you, I showed him pictures of you and he says he’s going to try to make room in his schedule to meet you,'” she told Radio-Canada.
Dagenais claimed she met Miller and he gave her four boxes of expensive shoes and suggested it was an advance for sex.
“He said, ‘next time we see each other, we’ll continue’… He saw that I was very kind and very vulnerable,” she said.
Another Quebec judge hearing the class-action case rejected a request to freeze his assets last year.
Gaudet has said that new facts have since come to light that lead him to believe there is a “structure designed to conceal the defendant’s assets.”