Montreal doctor convicted of sex assault shielded assets from victims before suicide, lawsuits allege

A Montreal doctor convicted of sexual assault — and accused of sexually assaulting another seven women — attempted to shield his assets from his victims before dying by suicide, according to two lawsuits.

The lawsuits, filed in Montreal earlier this month, allege that Stephan Probst, the former head of nuclear medicine at the Jewish General Hospital, sexually assaulted two women, identified in each lawsuit as A and G.

Both A and G are seeking more than $300,000 in damages from Probst’s estate. They also allege Probst transferred two properties to his partner, Wendy Devera, before dying by suicide in an explicit attempt to prevent his alleged victims from successfully suing his estate. 

Both Probst and Devera were convicted in August 2024 of sexually assaulting an unidentified woman, known as X in court documents. Six months later, prosecutors laid new charges against Probst, alleging he sexually assaulted an additional seven women between 2003 and 2020. 

A and G say in their lawsuits that they were among those additional women and only came forward to police after learning through the media the details of X’s case, which they both say closely mirrored their own.

Devera was sentenced on Monday to two years minus a day for her role in X's sexual assault. Half of her sentence will be served under house arrest, the other half is to be served in the community with conditions.

Quebec court Judge Suzanne Costom said in her decision that she is convinced that, had she not been in a relationship with Probst, Devera would not have committed the sexual assault.

Probst died by suicide, according to court documents, in June 2025, before he could be sentenced for the August 2020 sexual assault against X — and before any of the additional charges against him could be tested in court. 

In May, one month before he died, property records show Probst transferred two properties to Devera for $0. Late last month, Devera sold one of the properties, a Plateau Mont-Royal condo, for $470,000. She still owns the other property, a luxury downtown condo, which Probst bought for more than $1.2 million in 2017.

In their lawsuits, A and G say the property transfers were an explicit attempt to prevent alleged sexual assault victims from receiving damage payments from Probst's estate.

“A intends to prove that these gratuitous acts were a manoeuvre by Probst to dispose of his assets and render himself insolvent in order to defraud his creditors,” A's lawsuit says.

Business records show Probst also named Devera a director of his business, Stephan Probst Medical services, on May 15, 2025 — weeks before he died. 

In the lawsuit, A describes how her connection with the pair began.

She says she met Devera on an online dating app in 2018. They chatted and A expressed a desire to have a sexual relationship with Devera. In 2019, Devera suggested a meetup at one of Probst’s homes.