At 91 years of age, auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach should be kicking back and reflecting on a life well-lived. That coda may not be in the cards. Instead, the Austrian immigrant who built Aurora-based Magna Auto Parts into a worldwide industrial colossus is now facing his #MeToo moment.
Details are sparse, but the bombshell press release unveiled late on June 7, sent tremors reverberating from Bay St. to Rosedale and points beyond. Peel Regional Police blandly announced that detectives from its Special Victims Unit had arrested “a 91-year-old male from Aurora in connection with a sexual assault investigation.
” Cops say the alleged sexual assaults ran from the 1980s to just last year. Stronach was arrested and charged with five criminal offences: Rape (that charge was stricken from the Criminal Code in 1983), indecent assault on a female, two counts of sexual assault, and forcible confinement. On Friday, CTV News — citing court documents — reported that the alleged incidents occurred in 1980, 1986 and 2023 and involve three separate complainants.
Famed criminal lawyer Brian Greenspan, who is repping Stronach, has said his client “categorically denies the allegations of impropriety which have been brought against him and looks forward to responding to the charges.” Now, the auto parts czar’s golden years are beginning to lose their lustre. ***** Stronach grew up under the Nazis in his native Austria, where as a young man he became a machinist.
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