Screenwriter Paul Haggis is ordered to pay another $2.5-million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10-million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her almost a decade ago
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.The 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.The jury sided with Breest last week, awarded her $7.
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. Except for some relatively small gigs rewriting scripts, Haggis said, “I will never work as a writer until I clear my name.”“Nothing Paul Haggis says can be trusted,” attorney Ilann Maazel said.
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