A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall.
in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall. Jurors also plan to award additional punitive damages.
After a screening afterparty in January 2013, Haggis offered Breest a lift home and invited her to his New York apartment for a drink. While awarding her $7.5 million to compensate for suffering, the jury concluded that punitive damages should also be awarded. Jurors return Monday for more court proceedings to help them decide that amount.
Breest, in particular, said she decided to sue Haggis because his public condemnations of Weinstein infuriated her.Four other women also testified that they experienced forceful, unwelcome passes — and in one case, rape — by Haggis in separate encounters going back to 1996. None of the four took legal action.
During three weeks of testimony, the trial scrutinized text messages that Breest sent to friends about what happened with Haggis, emails between them before and after the night in question, and some differences between their testimony and what they said in early court papers.The two sides debated whether Haggis was physically capable of carrying out the alleged attack eight weeks after a spinal surgery.
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