Jury tells filmmaker Paul Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suit

UPDATE: Jury tells filmmaker Paul Haggis to pay $10M total in rape suit

The jury sided with Breest last week, in compensatory damages for suffering and decided that she was also due punitive damages. Jurors returned to court Monday to work out the amount.

While explaining the complexities of screenwriting compensation, he estimated that throughout his four decades in TV and movies, he’s made as much as $25 million — before taxes, agents’ and other representatives’ fees and asset splits with his two ex-wives. Except for some relatively small gigs rewriting scripts, Haggis said, “I will never work as a writer until I clear my name.”“Nothing Paul Haggis says can be trusted,” attorney Ilann Maazel said.

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