{"id":149011,"date":"2018-01-26T00:34:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149011"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:34:37","slug":"canadian-filmmaker-paul-haggis-will-not-testify-in-rape-suit-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/26\/canadian-filmmaker-paul-haggis-will-not-testify-in-rape-suit-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian filmmaker Paul Haggis will not testify in rape suit next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149016\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-Paul_Haggis_Canadian_Film_Centre_2013-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149016\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-Paul_Haggis_Canadian_Film_Centre_2013-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"The Canadian Film Centre welcomed Academy Award\u00ae-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis for a master class with our residents. (Photo By Canadian Film Centre,  CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-Paul_Haggis_Canadian_Film_Centre_2013-cropped.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-Paul_Haggis_Canadian_Film_Centre_2013-cropped-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The Canadian Film Centre welcomed Academy Award\u00ae-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis for a master class with our residents. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=30409538\">Photo By Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; A scheduled deposition of Paul Haggis in a lawsuit in which the Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker is accused of rape will not go forward as planned next week.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Haleigh Breest, a publicist who says he raped her in 2013, scheduled Haggis to give sworn testimony on Monday. But his attorney, Christine Lepera, informed her attorneys on Thursday the date didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in December, prompted three additional women to come forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another who says he raped her. They aren&#8217;t identified in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Haggis has denied the allegations and countersued Breest.<\/p>\n<p>Breest&#8217;s attorneys have asked for the deposition to be immediately rescheduled. They also criticized Lepera for requesting a settlement which was then characterized as extortion in the countersuit.<\/p>\n<p>Lepera did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; A scheduled deposition of Paul Haggis in a lawsuit in which the Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker is accused &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[44805,44804],"class_list":["post-149011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-haleigh-breest","tag-paul-haggis","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}