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Part One: Peter Nygard: The Epstein of Fashion

Behind the Bastards

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The Man Who Kills a Man With a Shovel

In 1960, Peter Nygird was the most accomplished student at a school in all fields. In 1967 he gathers up his life savings and receives an $8,000 loan to purchase 20% of a woman's stake in a garment manufacturer called Nathan Jacobs. He later went on to found T.E.T.N.S., which one of his websites describes as quote, the premier and most sophisticated department store chain in North America. Margaret: We know that he goes to the United States, you know, basically as soon as he graduates high school, and he graduates from the University of North Dakota a couple of years later with a business degree.

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