Quebec Superior Court authorizes class action against billionaire Robert Miller
Posted January 15, 2025 9:08 am.
Last Updated January 15, 2025 9:10 am.
The Quebec Superior Court authorized a class action on Tuesday against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller, accused of paying minors for sex.
The class action application was filed by three co-plaintiffs “who claim to have been victims of a juvenile prostitution system organized for the sexual benefit” of Miller by employees of the company Future Electronics, according to the decision by Justice Catherine Piché.
During the hearing held in November, lawyer Jeff Orenstein of the firm Consumer Law Group, representing the plaintiffs, had stated that 51 alleged victims had come forward to his firm and that the actual number could be as high as 100.
In addition to Miller, 81, the class action targets three employees of the company Future Electronics, founded and recently sold by Miller: Sam Joseph Abrams, Raymond Poulet and Helmut Lippmann.
According to the class action, Robert Miller, the company and the three employees were involved in an alleged scheme to recruit young girls in Montreal to have sex with Miller in exchange for money and gifts in the 1990s and 2000s.
Robert Miller was charged last May with 21 criminal counts involving 10 alleged victims, many of them minors.
-With reporting from Sidhartha Banerjee
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
