Women who claim billionaire tycoon Frank Stronach sexually abused them speak out - as he's hit with 18 charges

A erstwhile unchangeable manus to Canadian parts billionaire Frank Stronach has claimed he sexually assaulted her successful beforehand of unit earlier raping her successful a institution owned condo.

The laminitis of Magna International has been charged pinch 18 counts, including rape, forcible confinement and intersexual assault, against 13 women making love backmost to nan 1970s.

The astir caller stems from an incident successful February of this year, conscionable a period earlier nan decease of his woman aft 60 years of marriage.

The 92-year-old claimed a female who accused him of demanding oral activity successful a locked car precocious had successful truth sexually assaulted him, but 1 of his alleged rape victims says he whitethorn yet beryllium astir to look justice.

'That different women had travel guardant and that I wouldn't beryllium facing this unsocial was a relief,' she told CBC's The Fifth Estate.' And it made maine deliberation that, perhaps, thing tin alteration this time.'

The woman, who gave her sanction arsenic 'Leigh', was a 19-year-old groom astatine Stronach's stables northbound of Toronto erstwhile her friends persuaded her to observe her 20th day astatine his nightclub Rooney's successful 1980.

Stronach kept a array for himself astatine nan Toronto hotspot and recognized his young employee, brushing disconnected her protestation that she did not portion earlier pulling her to nan dancefloor.

'He's holding maine really really tight, I was trying to get loose,' she told nan program.

'And past he shoves up successful my skirt and he punctures my pantyhose.'

She said she later came to successful a institution condo connected nan Toronto waterfront pinch nary thought really she had sewage there.

'I was connected my back, looking up astatine nan ceiling, and I could spot myself successful nan ceiling,' she added. 'I could spot him connected apical of me. He was having activity pinch me. Raping me.

'I was really scared. Him being a rich | guy, he couldn't spend to person group opportunity things astir them and worldly for illustration that. I thought I was going to beryllium dumped successful nan harbour.'

Stronach created nan largest auto-parts shaper successful North America aft emigrating from his autochthonal Austria successful 1954, pinch revenues past twelvemonth of $43 billion.

He was friends pinch Queen Elizabeth, ran for nan Canadian parliament successful 1988 and was awarded nan Order of Canada successful 1999.

'Everybody's acrophobic of Frank,' 1 worker told nan programme makers.

'He tin salary disconnected anyone he wants. So, it's like, having worked for him, you study nan things he gets distant pinch and everybody's acrophobic of it.'

Stronach's friend Bill Clinton wrote a glowing testimonial erstwhile he group up a caller governmental statement successful a bid to go Austria's leader successful 2012, telling him he was 'proud' of their friendship.

'I'm proud of nan imagination you've displayed passim your business career,' he added.

Leigh went to nan constabulary pinch her allegations successful 2015 but it was June this twelvemonth earlier Peel Police brought charges successful June this year.

'I ne'er heard different connection backmost from nan police. Not a telephone call, not an email. Nothing,' Leigh told nan program.

Other women began going to nan constabulary and writer Jane Boon went nationalist pinch her account of really nan past 54-year-old had 'abused his power' to person activity pinch her erstwhile she was a 19-year-old intern.

She was a precocious schoolhouse student erstwhile Stronach interviewed her for a Magna danasiwa to nan General Motors Institute successful Flint, Michigan to study engineering.

The pursuing twelvemonth he invited her to an 'afterparty' astatine Rooney's aft spotting her astatine nan institution AGM, beckoning her to subordinate his array erstwhile she arrived.

She claims he pressed her to eat a mates of alcohol-marinated strawberries earlier insisting she was excessively drunk to thrust home.

'As if connected cue, Stronach's driver arrived and was told that I'd had excessively overmuch to drink,' she told airmail.news.

'Stronach declared that he would return maine to nan guesthouse, and nan driver would present my car there.

'He turned to maine and said, 'Jane, springiness him your keys'.

Stronach drove her to nan institution guesthouse wherever they duly had sex.

'It was a horrible maltreatment of power,' she recalled. 'To put it bluntly, a 54-year-old CEO should not beryllium hitting connected 19-year-old co-op students successful their employ.'

Stronach was ousted from nan institution he founded successful 2010 and spent years battling his girl Belinda for power of his empire.

In caller years he has spent much clip astatine his Aurora restaurant, Frank's Organic Garden, wherever unit described him arsenic uncomfortable and predatory and astatine slightest 1 of them is among his 13 accusers.

'Frank, pinch 1 of nan girls, took her speech … and past gave her a hug goodbye and grabbed her a**,' a erstwhile worker told CBS

'With nan 1 woman who was taken into nan backstage eating room, erstwhile she came out, I could spot connected her look instantly that thing happened to her.'

She besides recalled different workfellow returning successful tears aft being invited to meal to talk 'future occupation opportunities' pinch Stronach.

She claimed that nan billionaire alternatively drove her to nan car batch of a adjacent Walmart, sexually assaulted her and demanded oral sex.

'The doors were locked,' nan ex-staffer recalled. 'She couldn't get away.'

Stronach has claimed he is nan unfortunate of a conspiracy and that what happened successful nan locked car was nan 'other measurement around'.

'I knew this would happen,' he told nan program. 'Any clip you alteration nan system, I would beryllium attacked.

'My point is, I'm supra everything. We sewage to amended nan law, we sewage distant from what a free nine means.

'The 1 point I americium astir judge of is I haven't done thing improper,' he added.

'I created a system, which will beryllium very difficult to beryllium that I did thing improper.'

Stronach is free connected bail but owed to reply nan charges erstwhile he appears astatine a Toronto tribunal connected November 4.

Leigh said she felt suicidal aft nan alleged attack, discontinue nan stables and walked distant permanently from her life passion.

'He took distant my joyousness successful moving pinch horses because astatine that clip it would ever support coming backmost to maine and backmost to maine and backmost to me,' she explained.

'It conscionable didn't person nan aforesaid lightness and power astir it. He took distant my fire.'