Filmmaker Paul Haggis, Oscar winner for ‘Crash’, was convicted of rape in New York

Canadian filmmaker Paul HaggisOscar winner for the film CrashHe was sentenced for rape in New York after a civil trial, in which a jury found him responsible for three sex crimes against his accuser.

Paul Haggis will have to pay compensation of 7.5 million dollars to haleigh breesta publicist that accuses him of having raped her in 2013, when she was 26 and he was 59, in the filmmaker’s apartment in Manhattan after a movie premiere, according to local media.

The trial has been held over three weeks in the Manhattan Supreme Court, five years after Breest filed the complaint, and the jury has unanimously decided today that the also director of million dollar Baby He is guilty of abusing the woman.

The panel, made up of two women and four men, considered after its deliberations that Paul Haggis committed three crimes: one of rape in the first degree, another of sexual abuse and a third of criminal sexual act.

About the verdict

The consequences of that verdict are economic, since it is a civil and not a criminal process, but in addition to the millionaire compensation for the victim, determined today, another compensation for damages is yet to be decided, which will probably be known on Monday.

The complainant offered a harsh testimony, in which she claimed to feel like a “trapped animal” when the director took her by car to her apartment in Soho instead of a bar and tried to get away from the man, who allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him before to rape her.

The defendant has maintained that the meeting was consensual and has argued that the Church of Scientologywith whom he broke up a few years before the reported events, is behind Breest’s complaint and other women who have testified against him, according to The New York Post. (EFE)

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Filmmaker Paul Haggis, Oscar winner for ‘Crash’, was convicted of rape in New York