BREAKING: Director Paul Haggis has been found liable on three counts of rape and sexual abuse by a jury after a former publicist accused him of raping her at his SoHo penthouse in 2013.
“There are three ‘r’ words that happened here: rejection, regret and revenge,” Chaudhry told the jury during her closing arguments on Nov. 9. “And none of these ‘r’ words are rape.”
“We have to face the cold, hard truth—Paul Haggis is a monster,” Maazel told the court Wednesday. “He is a psychopath. He is cunning and deceitful and manipulative. He sexually assaulted five women and he has the gall to get up on that stand and play the victim.
Haggis’ legal team, who noted the burden of proof wasn’t on them to affirmatively prove the Church of Scientology was somehow behind the case, however, failed to draw a distinct connection between Scientology and the rape he was accused of after four weeks of testimony
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