Montreal billionaire Robert Miller facing new $8M lawsuit after allegations involving teen girls
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A wealthy Montreal businessman who stepped down from the tech company he founded after being accused of sexually exploiting underage girls is facing a new lawsuit.
A wealthy Montreal businessman who stepped down from the tech company he founded after being accused of sexually exploiting underage girls is facing a new lawsuit.
Robert Miller, according to this latest legal proceeding filed Wednesday in Superior Court, was the alleged mastermind behind the so-called "Miller Network" described in the lawsuit as "a complex and organized network whose main objective was to recruit underage girls to satisfy Robert Miller's sexual urges."
The plaintiff, whose identity is not revealed in the document, is suing Miller, his company, Future Electronics Inc., two of its executives and Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel for $8 million.
The allegations of paying underage girls for sex were first published in an investigative report on Miller by CBC/Radio-Canada on Feb. 2. The report featured multiple women who claimed they were recruited by the Montreal billionaire's associates and brought to the Montreal hotel, as well as two homes in Westmount, on several occasions to engage in various sexual acts with him.
After the report was published, a statement from Future Electronics, based in the Montreal suburb of Pointe-Claire, said Miller "adamantly and vehemently denies" the allegations and that he resigned as CEO in order to " focus on his very serious health issues and devote his attention to the protection of his reputation."
The lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Montreal law firm Calex is from one alleged victim, who claimed she was approached in 2001 as a teenager in high school by a friend to meet with Miller. After their first encounter, she and her friend left with envelopes with $1,500 cash after a sexual encounter, the lawsuit alleged.
She came from a low-income, immigrant family and at the time, she was "not only vulnerable but also easily influenced and impressionable," according to the lawsuit.
