Reclusive Quebec billionaire Robert G. Miller, who allegedly paid several young girls in exchange for sexual favours, was arrested Thursday afternoon and faces 21 charges, including sexual assault, obtaining sexual services for consideration and several counts of sexual exploitation of minors.
The former owner of Future Electronics was arrested at his home in the Montreal neighbourhood of Westmount.
Miller is alleged to have committed the offences against 10 women and girls — eight of them minors — between 1994 and 2016, Montreal police said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. One of the alleged victims was under 14 years old at the time of alleged offences.
Last year, Radio-Canada’s Enquête and CBC’s The Fifth Estate revealed allegations from several women who said Miller had paid them for sexual services while they were minors, some as young as 14.
The charges are the culmination of a year-long police investigation, which was triggered by a CBC/Radio-Canada investigation that aired in February 2023.
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Miller “deplores” the fact that the prosecution proceeded with charges “notwithstanding its knowledge that his state of health prevents him from defending himself,” the statement said.
Last year, Radio-Canada’s Enquête and CBC’s The Fifth Estate revealed allegations from several women who said Miller had paid them for sexual services while they were minors, some as young as 14.
A notoriously private person despite his standing as one of Quebec’s richest men, Miller was seldom photographed, and the young women who met him allege he told them he was an American radio executive named Bob Adams.
Last March, one of the civil suits was rejected on the grounds that the plaintiff had accepted tens of thousands of dollars from Miller after the 2023 CBC/Radio-Canada story was broadcast.
During the proceedings, one of Miller’s associates, Sam Abrams, revealed that he had paid the plaintiff nearly $100,000 — money from his bank account but purportedly from the coffers of Future Electronics — after she was contacted by Radio-Canada journalists during their investigation.
Medical experts have stated that Miller is extremely ill, suffering from Parkinson’s disease and cardiac ailments, and that he is too sick to testify in court.
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