Paul Haggis Civil Trial: Jury Awards $2.5M In Punitive Damages; Oscar Winner Vows To “Fight To Clear My Name”
The unanimous jury of four men and two women — whose makeup changed on the first day of deliberations — deliberated for nearly six hours in the civil trial before awarding Breest $7.5 million in compensation. It also recommended punitive damages, the amount of which will be decided Monday, November 14. Seated between his lawyers, Haggis — who faces no jail time because this was not a criminal proceeding — looked straight ahead as the verdicts were read.
Breest hugged her lawyers and said as she exited that she was “very grateful.” She later released a statement through her attorneys: “I am grateful that I had the opportunity to seek justice and accountability in court — and that the jury chose to follow the facts — and believed me. The greatest source of comfort through this five year legal journey has been the support I felt from the women who bravely shared their own stories and let me know I wasn’t alone.
Also in the hallway, Breest paused to hug her former therapist, Catherine Baker-Pitts, who treated Breest in 2017-19 and“Justice was served,” Baker-Pitts said of the verdict, adding that Breest stepped “out of her comfort zone” to pursue the case, “and she trusted in the system.” Today’s verdicts were the latest judgment in a spate of cases growing out of a #MeToo movement that has called out powerful men in the entertainment industry as sexual abusers. The jury was asked to decide whether Haggis was one of them. Breest and her lawyers sought to prove that Haggis had forced her to submit to intercourse and to perform oral sex on him and pushed his fingers inside of her even as she said “no.
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