Gilbert Rozon sought to settle accounts with several of the women who accused him of sexual assault during an out-of-court interrogation where he stated, in particular, that one of them wanted to advertise on his back, and that another wanted to extort him.
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“It was like quantity over quality. They played the quantity card by piling up seven or eight girls who were saying all sorts of things that, in some cases, had neither head nor tail,” the ex-comedy mogul recently said, in an out-of-court examination filed at the Montreal courthouse.
In the 250-page transcript, of which Le Journal obtained a copy, Rozon thus charges against several of the women who accuse him of being a sexual predator.
Nine of them are currently suing him in civil proceedings, claiming a total of $13.35 million.
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In this interrogation, Rozon also detailed his fall which occurred in 2017, following an investigation published in Le Devoir.
He initially thought these would be “uncle’s” comments which, “in today’s world, are offensive”.
However, just before the publication of the report, an important sponsor dropped it.
Then, the president of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal called him to resign.
The fall
The bomb then fell.
“When I saw the allegations, the next day, published, I could not believe my eyes […], he said. I couldn’t imagine what that storm…how big it would be. I can’t imagine it. I was completely knocked out. »
Saying he had been “executed”, he resolved to sell the company to prevent it from falling with him.
Five years later, Rozon maintains that all the allegations against him are false.
Going on the offensive, he says he has noticed that since then, women who denounced him would have changed their versions of the facts.
“The declarations of the young ladies have completely changed, evolved; they became different, ”he testified, among other things about the allegations that he assaulted some of these women in their sleep.
Bad intentions
Affirming that this “chance” occurred when several of the informants chose the same lawyer, he however defends himself from lending them bad intentions.
“Otherwise it would be scary,” he says.
Because for him, everything that is said about him is false.
He believes that one has invented everything “to get publicity”, that the other is a “liar”, and that a third is “dangerous”.
“I could see that she was trying to build a case for herself to extract money one way or another, and that she was a leader trying to drag people into her stride,” said asserted Rozon, in his defence.
What he said
“Love is made in twos. Both people must participate and be consenting. »
“You’re always scared when you tell a girl she’s beautiful or her dress is beautiful, in today’s world it’s offensive. You have to accept it, the world is like that. »
“You’re trying to get me to say that I was going into bedrooms like a werewolf to make love to women.” That, no. »