Jury orders Oscar-winner Paul Haggis to pay additional $2.5m in **** lawsuit

Publicist Haleigh Breest had accused the director of assaulting her in 2013 and will receive a total of $10m in damages Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered on Monday 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. Continue reading...