'Crash' oscar winner Paul Haggis: Rape ruins his life!!

Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis lost his trial on friday in a sexual assault case and was found guilty by a court. At the same time, he has been ordered by the court to pay compensation of US $ 7.5 million to the victim.



Paul Haggis was accused by the woman of assaulting and attempting to rape her at the 2015 Toronto international Film Festival. The woman claimed that director Haggis sexually assaulted her before going to his apartment after the TIFF event. The woman said that it was terrible for her.
Paul Haggis is liable to pay damages for forcing sex on Haleigh Breest in 2013, a civil jury decided thursday, rejecting the “Crash" filmmaker's three-pronged defense that he and the former publicist had consensual sex, that she was seeking revenge and a payday , and that somehow Scientology was behind it all.

A jury of four women and two men ordered Haggis to pay Breest 7.5 million and recommended punitive damages, which will be determined in a second phase starting Monday. Haggis has said the lawsuit, which sat on the runway for nearly six years, has already ruined him financially.
The New York jury began deliberating thursday at 9:45 a.m. after 15 days of testimony that concluded Wednesday, and rendered their verdict just after 4:30 p.m. The panel found him liable on all three counts of rape and sexual abuse; because it was a civil trial, Haggis faces no jail or prison time.

మరింత సమాచారం తెలుసుకోండి: