Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon at a Montreal courthouse on June 30. Rozon is being sued by nine women for nearly $14-million in damages over allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon says he’s been treated like a pariah in the eight years since he was publicly accused by multiple women of sexual assault.
The disgraced former comedy mogul says the allegations have ruined his life and cost him his company.
Rozon is being sued by nine women for a total of nearly $14-million in damages over allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.
Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon’s sex-assault civil trial disrupted by insults, threats
He said outside a Montreal courtroom Wednesday that he regrets not “writing cheques” to the women years ago instead of fighting the allegations in court.
Rozon says the plaintiffs have formed a coalition against him with the aim of getting money.
He says he’s become a symbol of the #MeToo movement, and that the judge is under “colossal media pressure” as she considers the case.
