Italian authorities have detained Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, according to the Associa…
Crash.
He was visiting Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, located in the “heel” of the Italian peninsula. The news agency LaPresse and several other Italian media reported on the alleged incident. They quoted a written statement from prosecutors in the nearby city of Brindisi that a “young foreign woman” was forced to have “non-consensual” sexual relations over two days.
Prosecutors said the woman was “forced to seek medical care” following the sexual relations. After a couple of days “of non-consensual relations, the woman was accompanied by the man” to Brindisi airport on Sunday. She subsequently “was left there at dawn, despite precarious physical and psychological conditions.
Haggis spent more than 20 years in television, before moving into feature films. He became the first screenwriter to garner two Best Film Academy Awards back-to-back for his scriptsFlags of our Fathersthe latter for which he earned his third Best Screenplay Oscar nomination. He also co-wrote the James Bond film
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