Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis has been ordered to pay an additional $2.5M in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10M for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago.
While accuser Haleigh Breest’s lawyers called the verdict just, Haggis insisted that he had been falsely accused and was financially ruined by fighting the civil case. He vowed to appeal.Breest, a publicist, said Haggis raped her and forced her to perform oral sex in his New York apartment on Jan. 31, 2013. He says they had a consensual encounter.in compensatory damages for suffering and decided that she was also due punitive damages.
While explaining the complexities of screenwriting compensation, he estimated that throughout his four decades in TV and movies, he’s made as much as $25 million — before taxes, agents’ and other representatives’ fees and asset splits with his two ex-wives.
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Jury tells filmmaker Paul Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suitThe same jury had already found that Haggis raped publicist Haleigh Breest and forced her to perform oral sex in his New York apartment on Jan. 31, 2013. He says they had a consensual encounter.
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Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis to pay $10M to rape accuser after jury raises damagesOscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10 million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago.
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Jury tells filmmaker Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suitOscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis has been ordered to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit
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Jury tells filmmaker Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suitNEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10 million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago.
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Jury tells filmmaker Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suitOscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis has been ordered to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit.
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Filmmaker Paul Haggis ordered to pay total of $10M in rape lawsuitOscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered to pay an additional $2.5.M in damages in a rape lawsuit, now owing a total of $10M to the woman who says he raped her in 2013.
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