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Paul Haggis detained in Italy for sex assault

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Director Paul Haggis was detained in Italy on Sunday after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman, according to local reports.

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Haggis — who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning 2006 movie “Crash” — is being investigated over allegations

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that he forced a “young foreign woman” to have “non-consensual” sex with him over the course of two days,

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prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando gave Italian media a statement that said the woman needed to seek medial care

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“The woman was accompanied by the man” to Brindisi airport in the Puglia region on Sunday and “was left there at dawn despite

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Haggis allegedly held the woman captive in his hotel room. The outlet, citing a local police source, said he tried to fly the woman out of Italy

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Employees at the airport brought the woman to the cops, who then took her to the hospital, the Daily Beast said.

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It is unclear where he is being detained. Italian authorities said the unidentified woman “formalized her complaint

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