Robert Miller: As many as 100 abuse victims of Montreal billionaire, lawyer says [Video]

A Quebec judge began hearing arguments on Wednesday for a class-action lawsuit application against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller over allegations he paid minors for sex.

The proposed lawsuit identifies the class as anyone under the age of 18 who was paid for sex by Miller, the founder of global electronics distributor Future Electronics, or who was a victim of sexual exploitation by him or by any other group determined by the court.

Lawyer Jeff Orenstein told the court that 51 women have come forward to his firm, but he says the actual number of victims could be as high as 100 because many of the women said they had allegedly recruited others to have sex with the billionaire.

“When you get into the weeds of reading all the declarations, you find that there’s always, there’s people that they brought, other people, they didn’t come there alone and we don’t have …