A Canadian billionaire has been ordered to hand over two of his mansions at the request of four women who allege he sexually abused them when they were minors.
Robert Miller, 81, will have both of his Montreal homes seized after Judge Serge Gaudet ruled against him on Friday.
The plaintiffs have argued that the two homes, valued at C$2 million each, were listed as companies in an attempt by Miller to conceal his wealth.
According to Judge Gaudet, the founder of Future Electronics, also known as “Jeffrey Epstein of Canada”, does not have any bank accounts in his name.
He said in court minutes seen by The Canadian Press that: “It is disturbing to note that Miller, a billionaire, does not have a bank account in his name.”
Gaudet also noted that there had been “persistent and significant use” of other names to conceal his assets.
The four women are seeking millions from Miller, claiming they had been recruited as high school students to have sex with him in exchange for money.
Miller, who suffers from terminal Parkinson’s disease, has denied all allegations against him.
Robert Miller, 80, is accused of paying at least 47 teenagers as young as 11 for sex and convincing them to recruit their friends and classmates to be new victims.
In addition to the four women who filed lawsuits, he faces multiple legal actions that led to his arrest in May on 21 sex-related charges involving 10 complainants.
Miller also faces a separate proposed class-action lawsuit that alleges he gave money and gifts to minors in exchange for sex between 1996 and 2006.
That class action lawsuit has not yet been authorized.
One of the four people in the case that led to the seizure of the property alleged that in 1999, when she was 14, she was recruited to visit a man she claimed was Miller.
Along with a friend from high school, the two girls say they went to a hotel room where a Miller employee met them before sending them to meet Miller, who used the name Bob.
Court documents seen by The Canadian Press say he then offered them each $1,000 for sex. They say he refused to use a condom due to a latex allergy.
The woman alleges that she met with Miller more than 30 times, was paid each time, and that the meetings ended when she reached adulthood.
According to an affidavit, he became dependent on money and began struggling with drug and alcohol abuse.
After Miller was first publicly accused in 2023, he immediately resigned as head of Future Electronics “to focus on his very serious health problems.”
Gaudet also noted that there had been “persistent and significant use” of other names to conceal his assets. One of their houses is seen here.
The plaintiffs have argued that the two homes, valued at C$2 million each, were listed as companies in an attempt by Miller to conceal his wealth. One of them is seen here.
The company said it “strongly and vehemently denies the malicious allegations made against it and confirms that they are false and totally unfounded and that they arose as a result of a bitter divorce.”
‘Now they are repeated to obtain economic benefits. “A police investigation was conducted into these allegations and authorities determined that they were unfounded,” he said.
One of the women who accused him said she was lured by a modeling ad in a newspaper in 1996, when she was 17 and went to a hotel.
She was told she had been “chosen” and was soon on the phone with Miller and they had sex between seven and 10 times over the next three years.
‘Every time the applicant saw defendant Robert G Miller for the purpose of having sexual relations, he handed him an envelope containing between $1,000 and $2,000 in cash; “Once it was $3,000,” his lawsuit said.
The deal ended when Miller showed him a negative HIV test that had a different name than his ‘Bob Adams’ character.
“This caused Plaintiff to become very concerned and she looked around the hotel room and found a closet full of watches,” the lawsuit alleges.
Julie Dagenais (left), the only woman connected to the allegations to reveal her identity, said she narrowly avoided becoming another victim when her parents found out.
Miller has frequently been called Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein appears here in his 2017 mugshot for the New York State Sex Offender Registry.
Realizing that she was just one of many girls who were being exploited, “she felt bad about herself and her self-esteem, ashamed, guilty, she was depressed.”
Julie Dagenais, the only woman connected to the allegations to reveal her identity, said she narrowly avoided becoming another victim when her parents found out.
She said an older co-worker at her minimum-wage job at Sears told her she was paid thousands of dollars to have sex with a wealthy businessman.
“She told me, ‘I told Bob about you, I showed him pictures of you and he says he’s going to try to make room in his schedule to meet with you,'” he told Radio-Canada.
Dagenais claimed she met Miller and he gave her four boxes of expensive shoes and implied it was an advance payment in exchange for sex.
“He would say, ‘Next time we meet, we’ll go further’… He saw that I was very kind and very vulnerable,” she said.
Another Quebec judge who heard the class-action case denied a request to freeze his assets last year.
Gaudet has stated that since then new facts have come to light that have led him to believe that there is a “structure that seeks to hide the assets of the accused.”