Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard has filed a lawsuit against a long list of defendants — including a woman who accused him of sexual assault and Manitoba's former attorney general — alleging he was defamed and suffered as a result of what he describes as an abuse of process surrounding his prosecution in Winnipeg.

Nygard filed the statement of claim in Manitoba's Court of King's Bench on Friday, naming as defendants the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Police Service, police Chief Gene Bowers, the Province of Manitoba and former Manitoba attorney general Kelvin Goertzen.

The lawsuit also names as defendants the Province of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Crown attorney Rob Parker, Toronto therapist and advocate Shannon Moroney, and April Telek, who alleged Nygard sexually assaulted her at his Winnipeg warehouse in 1993.

The court filing comes after a judge in October stayed the charges in Nygard's Winnipeg prosecution involving Telek, finding his right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to her allegations.