An illegitimate son of accused pedophile Peter Nygard has revealed how he was the one who persuaded his supermodel mom to expose the years of alleged abuse that led to his birth, according to a TV special.
In his first interview, Trey Peele told NBC’s “Dateline” about how he encouraged mom Beverly Peele to stop covering for the fashion mogul’s alleged abuse.
“I was like, Mom, we need to speak up,” Peele told Natalie Morales in a teaser for the two-hour special set to air in full at 9 p.m. Friday.
“You need to tell your story and make sure other people are not scared to come out,” he recalled.
“Because if you come out, many will follow — many, many, many will follow,” he told Morales of his father, who has been accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women, including girls as young as 14.
During her exposes, Peele’s mom revealed her heartbreak at finding out her son was a result of Nygard’s abuse, and not her marriage at the time.
Still, Peele insisted that he supported his mother revealing that, too.
He recalled telling her, “I think I’m OK with it, as long as you’re okay with it — and we can just go through this together.’”
The “Dateline” special, “The Secrets of Nygard Cay,” includes interviews with numerous members of Nygard’s staff — including the heartbreaking recollections of his ex-treasurer who claims she was drugged and assaulted by her boss.
“I started getting fuzzy vision and really, really dizzy,” Maridel Carbuccia told Morales.
“And I couldn’t feel my hands. I just hear him talking to me and talking to me and then, all of a sudden, I just wasn’t functional anymore,” she said, breaking down in tears.
“I was trying to get up … But, I couldn’t get up,” she recalled, struggling to speak.
“He was just on top of me, and I kept trying to push away. I was like, ‘Peter, get off me. What are you doing?’
“When I woke up in the morning, I was just there by myself. Nobody was there,” she said.
Nygard, now 80, has been in custody in Canada for a year since he was arrested over the alleged abuse stretching decades.
He is accused of using his businesses to procure women and girls in the United States, Canada and the Bahamas since at least 1995 to sexually gratify himself and his associates.
He is accused of drugging and raping females as young as 14 to satisfy his “near-daily” appetite for sex, according to an indictment out of the Southern District of New York.
In October, he agreed to be extradited to New York to face charges — but Canadian authorities also released new charges against him there, too.
He has also been sued by dozens of women who say he sexually abused them — and by some of his own sons, who claim he hired a female escort to rape them when they were children.
His lawyer has insisted that the fashion baron “has always unequivocally maintained his innocence of any wrongdoing.”
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