Film-maker Paul Haggis arrested over sexual assault allegations in Italy
by Edward Helmore and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#60HJH)
Prosecutors say allegations involve young foreign woman' who was forced to have non-consensual' sexual relations over two days
Authorities detained Oscar-winning film director Paul Haggis on Sunday in connection with allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors.
The Canadian-born Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, the region that forms the heel" of the Italian peninsula.
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