Paul Haggis’ First Accuser Still Awaits Trial 5 Years – and 4 New Alleged Victims – After Filing Rape Lawsuit
thewrap.comraping her “for days” in the hotel room where he was staying to give a master class at the Allora Film Festival in the coastal town of Otsuni.
Police told local media that the woman’s story is consistent with her movements and injuries, which included sexual battery so violent that she “could no longer have sex” and sought medical attention.
Haggis vehemently denied the claims through his U.S. attorney, and has suggested that as a reformed Scientologist who’s since criticized the religion, he’s become a target of the church’s infamous “attack the attacker” tactics.Haggis is being held at his hotel room on house arrest.
A hearing was scheduled for Thursday in an Italian court where a judge can determine whether he can go free while the investigation proceeds.However it plays out, the fact remains that if Haggis’ New York case had gone to court by now, and ended in anything but his total exoneration, it’s unlikely he would have ever been invited to the boot of Italy for the Allora Film Festival – whose motto is “Celebrating the Best of Us” – in the first place.Breest said she was raped on New Year’s Eve 2013, when she was 26 and Haggis was about 60.
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