'Nobody said anything': Former student recalls sexual advances by Frank Stronach

A former student and scholarship recipient at the company once helmed by Frank Stronach is speaking out about an “unwelcome but not illegal” sexual interaction involving the billionaire in the 1980s, when he was in his 50s and she was 19 years old.

A former student and scholarship recipient at the company once helmed by Frank Stronach is speaking out about an “unwelcome but not illegal” sexual interaction involving the billionaire in the 1980s, when he was in his 50s and she was 19 years old.

Jane Boon told CTV News Toronto in an interview about how she was first flattered at the attention the auto parts magnate paid her, but then felt “outmanoeuvred” by him as she ended up staying the night with him at a guest house controlled by the company, Magna International.

“It was outrageous,” recalled Boon in an interview on Monday. “Fifty-four-year-old CEOs should not be sleazing on 19-year-old students in their employ.”

Boon said she shared what happened with close friends at the time, but didn’t go public because she feared losing a scholarship that could jump-start her career.

“I knew that in saying anything I would be basically losing two years of my life. What happened was unwelcome. But it didn’t seem illegal,” Boon said.

Other alleged sexual interactions involving Stronach, who is now 91, have resulted in 13 criminal charges involving 10 women, with incidents dating back as far as the late 1970s to February of this year.

Magna has said it has no knowledge of the events.