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Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict

A judge had ordered the Oscar-winning filmmaker to pay at least $7.5 million to a former film-industry publicist after a civil jury found him liable for raping her.

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Paul Haggis, who won two Oscars for “Crash” (2004), had maintained that the sexual encounter was consensual.
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Judge Sets Date for Harvey Weinstein’s Third Trial for Same Rape Charge

Harvey Weinstein said he felt like he was on “a slow march to my death” as prosecutors continued to pursue the case after an aspiring actress accused him of raping her in 2013.

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A jury was deadlocked on the rape charge at Harvey Weinstein’s trial in June. He is scheduled to be retried in March.
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Most Lawyers in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office Are on Epstein Duty

The Justice Department has dedicated scores of lawyers, including more than 125 from the Southern District of New York, to reviewing over two million documents in the prominent case.

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The review, which will go on for a few more weeks at least, involves a huge trove of documents, photographs, video recordings, handwritten notes and other materials.
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