Quebec movie magnate Vincenzo Guzzo faces criminal harassment charges
MONTREAL – Quebec movie mogul Vincenzo Guzzo has been charged with criminal harassment.
The Quebec prosecutor’s office says Guzzo is charged with criminally harassing someone between November 2022 and June 2023.
He was also charged with allegedly failing to meet a condition of not communicating, directly or indirectly, with that person.
A police spokesman in the Montreal suburb of Terrebonne, Que., says Guzzo was arrested over the weekend and appeared in court on Sunday.
Guzzo is CEO of cinema chain Cinémas Guzzo and was one of the investors in the final season of the CBC Television show Dragon’s Den.
Requests for comment from Guzzo’s public relations representative were not immediately answered.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on June 27, 2023.
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