{"id":30981,"date":"2022-07-31T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/italian-judge-calls-for-paul-haggis-sexual-abuse-case-to-be-tossed-out-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-07-31T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:25:53","slug":"italian-judge-calls-for-paul-haggis-sexual-abuse-case-to-be-tossed-out-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/italian-judge-calls-for-paul-haggis-sexual-abuse-case-to-be-tossed-out-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Judge Calls for Paul Haggis Sexual Abuse Case to Be Tossed Out \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tAn Italian judge has called for the sexual abuse case against Paul Haggis to be tossed out, ruling there are no grounds to further pursue an investigation against the Oscar-winning director, per media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tThe judge in the Southern Italian city of Lecce called for the investigation against Haggis to be dismissed late Friday, the Italian news Agency ANSA reported Saturday.  Earlier, an appellate court ruled in Haggis&#8217; favor, rejecting an attempt by prosecutors to reinstate house arrest for Haggis while the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tHaggis was arrested on June 19 in the Southern Italian city of Ostuni, where he was attending the inaugural Allora film festival.  A 28-year-old British woman accused the 69-year-old filmmaker of forcing her to have sex with him over the course of two days.  Haggis spent 16 days under house arrest in his hotel before being released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tIn a statement issued to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> on Saturday, Haggis&#8217; Italian lawyer Michele Laforgia noted that the three judges of the appellate court \u201cunanimously rejected the prosecutor&#8217;s appeal to have Haggis&#8217; house arrest reinstated.\u201d  Laforgia said he \u201cirrefutable and objective evidence\u201d that the woman who presented accused Haggis told \u201cmultiple lies to investigators and the court, with facts and witnesses completely contradicting her story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tThe alleged victim&#8217;s legal team did not immediately comment on the judge&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tLaforgia said unless new evidence is presented to the court, prosecutors will have to close the case against Haggis, something he said he expected to happen in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tHaggis, who won a best picture and best original screenplay Oscar for <em>Crash<\/em> and screenplay nominations for <em>Million Dollar Baby<\/em> and <em>Letters from Iwo Jima<\/em>, is also facing a separate court case in the US Film publicist Haleigh Breest is suing Haggis, alleging her raped her in January 2013. A trial date for that case has been set for Oct.  11 in New York.  Haggis has said his encounter with Breest was consensual.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian judge has called for the sexual abuse case against Paul Haggis to be tossed out, ruling there are no grounds to further pursue an investigation against the Oscar-winning director, per media reports. The judge in the Southern Italian city of Lecce called for the investigation against Haggis to be dismissed late Friday, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/italian-judge-calls-for-paul-haggis-sexual-abuse-case-to-be-tossed-out-the-hollywood-reporter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italian Judge Calls for Paul Haggis Sexual Abuse Case to Be Tossed Out \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30803,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paul-haggis-sexual-assault-case-dropped-by-italian-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":30981,"position":0},"title":"Paul Haggis Sexual Assault Case Dropped by Italian Court","date":"July 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A judge in the southern Italian city of Lecce has further ruled that there are no grounds to pursue an investigation into that the Oscar-winning Canadian director Paul Haggis had sex with a young woman without her consent. 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