Greig Nori

Nori saw Sum 41 in concert at Jonopalooza in 1996 and convinced the group to lose their original lead vocalist, placing Deryck Whibley on vocals.^[2]

Nori formed the music artist management company Bunk Rock Entertainment.^[3] Through the 2000s, Nori would host the MuchMusic reality show Disband and produce music for Canadian groups Hedley and Marianas Trench.^[3] Nori would manage the band The New Cities for a few months, producing their first album, Lost in City Lights (2009).^[3][4]

As of 2024, Nori was a self-employed recording studio manager and engineer at Algoma Conservatory of Music, the largest music organization in Sault Ste. Marie and the second largest not-for-profit music education center in Ontario.^[5][6][7] The organization suspended all projects involving Nori following the allegations made by Whibley while it conducted an internal review of his allegations.^[7]

Sum 41 vocalist Deryck Whibley accused Nori of grooming and sexual abuse in his memoir Walking Disaster, published in 2024.^[6][8] Nori allegedly grabbed and kissed him.^[9] When Whibley said he rejected these advances, Nori allegedly got "psychologically and verbally abusive."^[9][10]

Nori has denied the allegations and has retained a defamation lawyer.^[11] Nori wrote in a statement through the Toronto Star that the accusation that he initiated the relationship was false.^[12] Nori continued that when their relationship began, Whibley and he were both adults, and that "the accusation that I pressured Whibley to continue the relationship by accusing him of homophobia is false. Ultimately the relationship simply faded out. Consensually. Our business relationship continued."^[12] In January 2025, Nori filed a lawsuit against Whibley, claiming libel and "breach of confidence, intrusion upon seclusion, wrongful disclosure of private facts, and placing the plaintiff in a false light." Whibley counter-sued, claiming $3 million in damages for "defamation and placing the plaintiff in a false light".^[13]