Canadian two-time Oscar winning
director and screenwriter Paul haggis was released on bail
Monday after being detained for 16 days on charges of raping a
28-year-old British woman in a B&B at Ostuni in Puglia for three
days in mid-June.
Haggis, 69, who denies inflicting the June 12-15 alleged ordeal
on the woman, won his Academy awards as producer and
screenwriter of the 2004 film Crash, which he also directed.
He also wrote the Oscar winning Clint Eastwood vehicle Million
Dollar Baby (2004).
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