Paul Haggis Rape Trial To Jury After Lawyers Deliver Closing Arguments
into his apartment in New York after a party in 2013 with the intent of having sex with her whether she consented to it or not, and then he raped her even as she repeatedly said no, a lawyer for Breest told jurors Wednesday.
“That woman doesn’t exist anymore,” he said as Breest looked on from her seat. “Paul Haggis took that away.” Maazel played back depositions and trial testimony from four other women who said Haggis forced himself on them in separate incidents between 1996 and 2015 after using different ruses to get them alone.
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