‘Paedo’ Peter Nygard ‘wanted girlfriends to have abortions to use foetuses for age-defying stem cell research’

PETER Nygard wanted to get his girlfriends pregnant and have abortions so he could use the foetuses for age-defying stem cell research, it was claimed.

Fifty-seven alleged victims – including a Brit – have also joined ongoing legal action, claiming Nygard used violence, intimidation, bribery and company employees to lure victims.

A new book by Melissa Cronin – a copy of which was provided to The Sun Online – makes claims about Nygard alleged bizarre behaviour.

In "Predator King: Peter Nygard's Dark Life of Rape, Drugs and Blackmail" Cronin – who also probed Jeffrey Epstein – she claims Nygard had an obsession with staying young.

The tycoon allegedly ended up establishing his stem cell research company on the island of St. Kitts, near his home in the Bahamas.

Cronin alleges the purpose was use aborted foetuses from his pregnant girlfriends to provide him with fresh stem cells.

An ex-girlfriends, Suelyn Medeiros, wrote in a 2014 memoir about a trip she took with Nygard to Ukraine, where he was having stem cell research done.

"He asked, 'Suelyn, do you know what the best stem cells are?'" she wrote, to which she replied "Embryos".

"Correct! If you got pregnant and had an abortion, we could use those embryonic cells and have a life's supply for all of us: you, your mother and me. A lot of people are doing it," he replied.

Nygard would host what he called "Pamper Parties" – often at his private island resort Nygard Cay in the Caribbean.

Nygard is alleged to have targeted women and underage girls with the false promises of modelling opportunities before sexually assaulting them.

In a statement, the Justice Department said Nygard is facing charges related to "At least a dozen" victims in a pattern of criminality across the US, the Bahamas, Canada and other locations.