Guy Cloutier is a Canadian music producer and talent manager.

Cloutier adapted reality TV to the Quebec market. Entertainers Stéphanie Cloutier and Véronique Cloutier

Véronique Cloutier

Véronique Cloutier is a popular French Canadian TV and Radio personality. She is the daughter of producer Guy Cloutier and the sister of Stéphanie Cloutier. She has hosted various programs on Radio-Canada, including La Fureur, Véro and Paquet Voleur...

 are his daughters. The father of Stéphanie's daughter is Minnesota Wild

Minnesota Wild

The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

 goaltender José Théodore

José Théodore

José Théodore is a French Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League...

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On 20 December 2004, he was sentenced to 3 and a half years (42 months) in prison for sexually abusing singer Nathalie Simard

Nathalie Simard

Nathalie Simard is a pop singer from Quebec, Canada and sister of performer René Simard.She was discovered by producer Guy Cloutier. Her first role was in a Laura Secord pudding commercial at age 2...

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Career

He started in managing and music production by forming Productions Guy Cloutier in 1969, becoming famous for launching the career of child singing sensation René Simard.
He produced Loft Story

Loft Story (Canada)

Loft Story was a Canadian French television series broadcast on the TQS television network, and was an adaptation of the show Loft Story in France, which itself was an adaptation of the Big Brother franchise...

, a made-in-Quebec reality TV

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 show, and Taillefer & filles

Taillefer & filles

Taillefer and Filles is a television series is hosted by Claudette Tailefer and Marie-Josée Taillefer and produced by Guy Cloutier. This series was made in 1994 under the name "Bon appétit!" and later renamed to "Taillefer & Filles", in 1998.-Overview:...

, a cooking show where mother and daughter Claudette and Marie-Josée Taillefer cook their favourite meals to audience.

Abuse

Cloutier pleaded guilty to five charges, including sexual assault

Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an assault of a sexual nature on another person, or any sexual act committed without consent. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may involve any combination of two or more men, women and children....

, indecent exposure

Indecent exposure

Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior. Indecent exposure laws vary in different...

 and sex with a minor

Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities , indecent exposure with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to...

. He served 19 months of a 42-month sentence sentence. It was later revealed that one victim was Nathalie Simard, who was under contract with Cloutier. Cloutier also entered a guilty plea to a charge of indecent exposure involving another minor whose name and gender were not made public. He received a 16-month sentence in that case.

His company

His company, Guy Cloutier Communications, became Novem Communications Inc. in October 2004 and is now owned and run by his daughter Véronique.

In October 2009, Véronique sold her company to Francois Ferland.