Lawyers want to rush child sex abuse trial of ‘Canada’s Jeffery Epstein’ Robert Miller, 80, over fears he might die soon: Billionaire is accused of assaulting nearly four dozen minors as young as 11 over three decades
Lawyers charging a billionaire accused of sexually assaulting at least 47 teenage girls want to question him even though he is bedridden and can barely speak.
Robert Miller, 80, has become known as ‘Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein’ after the women claimed he paid them for sex when they were just 11.
The Future Electronics founder is in the end stages of Parkinson’s disease and his alleged victims fear he will die before he is confronted with the crimes.
Miller allegedly used his company’s employees to find the girls through modeling ads and other ruses, and even enlisted the alleged victims to find more at their schools.
Jeff Orenstein, who is organizing a massive class action lawsuit against Miller and Future Electronics, has filed for his ouster as soon as possible.
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
“We have good reason to believe that he will unfortunately not be present at any trial,” he told a Montreal court this week.
A doctor who examined Miller’s medical records said he could be questioned despite being able to say only a few words at a time.
Miller was first publicly accused a year ago when the first six women came forward. The lawsuit, which has not yet been approved, was initiated weeks later.
Days later, Miller stepped down as boss of Future Electronics “to focus on his very serious health issues.”
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.
The women, and others who came forward afterwards, explained a shockingly efficient operation that lured girls in and paid them for sex for 30 years.
They said Miller told them he was an American businessman named Bob Adams who traveled regularly to Montreal.
Miller and his staff arranged the sexual encounters in downtown hotel rooms and two homes in Westmount from 1994 to 2006, paying them in cash or giving them expensive gifts such as luxury watches, the women alleged.
Many of them were targeted because they came from poor backgrounds or because their lives had gone off the rails, and he promised to help, but he never did.
Miller, 80, has become known as ‘Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein’ after the women claimed he paid them for sex when they were just 11 – a similar plot to the infamous pedophile billionaire (pictured)
Some girls went to the police over the years, but nothing ever came of it and Miller was never charged with a crime.
When Miller’s ex-wife hired private investigator John Westlake in 2006, suspecting him of having sex with underage girls, he offered him $300,000 to drop the investigation and turn over his three weeks of evidence.
Dr. Alain Dagher, a specialist in Parkinson’s disease, told the court on Tuesday that Miller could be questioned about whether this was done at home with oxygen supply, frequent breaks and nursing staff on hand.
“I think he qualifies as someone who is cognitively capable of answering questions,” he said, according to the newspaper Montreal Gazette.
Miller’s lawyer Karim Renno argued that this would not work and that it was an unreasonable request that the court should block.
“The court should not risk a person’s life by subjecting him or her to an interrogation that is likely impossible,” he said.
Supreme Court Justice Christian Immer was also concerned, expecting Miller to simply say he wasn’t there and that none of it ever happened.
“As opposed to, if he dies, you have 47 people saying he was there. And what do you have on the other side? Nothing,” he said.
Orenstein countered that he wanted Miller’s version of events directly from him.
‘I want to understand what he knew, what he didn’t know. What he will admit, what he will deny,” he said.
The judge will decide on the request at a later date.
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
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.
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 said. 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 alleged victim claimed she was only 14 when she started having sex with Miller, and recruited at least ten of her school friends to do the same with them.
“He even asked me to bring someone who hadn’t had sex yet,” she said. I refused, I told him to forget it,” she said Radio Canada.
“A lot of the guilt I experience today is that I got other people involved in this.
“When we brought a girl, he had sex with the girl, not the person who brought them.”
Miller later stopped using expensive hotels and instead moved to a house in the suburbs filled with gifts for the girls he brought there to abuse
Another woman, who said she was 17 when the abuse began, explained how Miller did it ‘loved them young, young, young’.
“He liked girls as young as possible, with nice, slim bodies,” she said. It was definitely more of a “little girl style,” she said.
Staff at one of the hotels Miller allegedly used to abuse young girls said he had rented two suites on the 25th floor, one for himself and another for an employee involved in recruiting the girls, but had never spent the night.
His room had a bath big enough for two people. The staff called it “the f**k tub” and several accusers claimed that’s exactly what he used for that purpose.
Miller later moved the location to a suburban home filled with gifts for the girls he brought there to abuse.
One described how he reportedly kept them coming back by letting them pick out expensive gifts they wanted after their next visit.
The basement was filled with jewelry, fake Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior handbags, Victoria’s Secret clothing, CDs and cell phones for them to choose from.
“Sometimes you’d see girls at school and without talking to them you’d know they saw Bob because they were wearing the same jewelry as you,” one person said.
Jeff Orenstein (pictured), who is organizing a massive class action lawsuit against Miller and Future Electronics, has filed for his ouster before he dies
The youngest alleged victim said she was just 11 when she first had a sexual encounter with Miller.
She claimed to have been recruited in 1999 by two older girls who were looking for virgins to bring to Miller.
The woman claimed that she and a friend, who was also 11 at the time, went to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and met the billionaire.
“He asked me how old I was, and I told him I was 11,” she wrote in her own lawsuit.
Miller then allegedly had sex, without a condom, with the two girls and gave them each an envelope containing $5,000 in cash.
She claimed to have sex with Miller thirty more times until she was twenty, continually recruiting more victims for him.
‘I had a lot of problems with my self-esteem and aggression. I still have nightmares and can’t sleep well,” she wrote in her affidavit.
The girl even introduced Miller to her mother, believing he was helping her by giving her so much money, and he handed over $10,000 in cash when they met.