Paul Haggis to be released from house arrest following rape allegations
By Evan Simko-Bednarski July 5, 2022 3:19pm Updated
Director Paul Haggis will be released from house arrest while prosecutors in Italy decide whether to pursue rape charges against him.
Judge Vilma Gilli ordered the Canada-born filmmaker could be sprung from his hotel pending the investigation on Monday.
Haggis, 69, was detained in Puglia last month after a woman alleged he raped her over two days while he was in the country for an arts festival in Ostuni.
The accuser has not been identified, though press reports have described her as a 28-year-old British woman.
“We were supposed to work together, but instead he raped me from Sunday evening to Wednesday,” the woman told cops in the southern city of Brindisi, the Daily Beast has reported.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/paul-haggis-to-be-released-from-italy-detention-amid-rape-case/