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Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director Paul Haggis, who has been behind some of Hollywood’s most acclaimed Oscar-winning films, paid nearly $2 million to a woman who accused him of raping her after a film premiere.
Notification of the payment as full settlement in the case, filed in a New York court on Friday, shows Haggis paid his accuser, Haleigh Breest, an amount significantly less than the US$10 million jury verdict against him in 2023.
Breest’s lawyer did not respond to several requests for comment.
Haggis’s lawyer for the settlement process, Imran Ansari, said Haggis...
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