Oscar-winning film-maker Paul Haggis has agreed to pay nearly US$2mil (RM8.1mil) to settle a lawsuit from a former film industry publicist who in 2022 won a rape trial against him.
The lawsuit, which Haleigh Breest filed in the early months of the #MeToo movement, said that in 2013, Haggis invited her to his loft in New York, where he forced her to give him oral sex, penetrated her digitally and raped her.
