Who is Peter Maxwell Stewart?

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Peter Stewart, who has been convicted of rape, and his wife Pieter.

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A member of a Christchurch foremost business family, Peter Stewart is a farmer who lives in Hororata.

Stewart's wife is fashion queen Pieter Stewart, managing director of New Zealand Fashion Week.
They have four adult children and live on a deer farm in Canterbury.

Stewart, 62, is the director of Pacific Eagle Charters and he owns a luxury charter superyacht that is based in Picton, located close to the Stewart holiday home in nearby Lochmara Bay.

Pieter Stewart's connection to the world of fashion began in 1979 when she founded Pieter's Model Agency and School in Christchurch. She had bought the business from New Zealand fashion icon, Paula Ryan, whose range featured at the inaugural L'Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week.

As well as running the school, Pieter began to focus on the role of media in fashion becoming associate editor of New Zealand's premier fashion magazine, Fashion Quarterly in the mid 1980s.

She formed her own public relations and promotions company in 1988. That business has since become the umbrella company for all her work in television production and in the development of New Zealand Fashion's most important week of business.

Peter Stewart's father is Sir Robertson Stewart who died earlier this year aged 93. Sir Robertson was the founder of PDL Industries, which was sold in 2001 to giant French manufacturer Schneider.

Sir Robertson had three children by his first marriage, but he and Gladys later divorced. He then married Adrienne, who had worked at PDL and been his secretary, since 1959. They had two children.

Peter's brother is Robert Stewart the founder and owner of Skope Industries, a designer and manufacturer of commercial refrigeration. It is based in Princess Street in Riccarton. Skope is one of Christchurch's largest manufacturers and is estimated to have revenues of $90 million a year.

Masthead is the company used by brothers Mark and Todd and their mother Lady Adrienne Stewart as an investment vehicle. Their recent offer to buy 51% of Auckland healthcare firm Abano failed because of opposition from Abano and when an Australian investor offered a higher price.