Crash director Paul Haggis arrested in Italy
The Oscar-winning filmmaker has been accused of sexual assault

Paul Haggis, the filmmaker behind 2006’s surprising Best Picture winner Crash, has been arrested in Italy on “charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury.” That comes from Variety, which says a “still unidentified woman” (all we know is that she is not Italian) pressed charges against Haggis, accusing him of forcing her to “undergo sexual intercourse over the course of two days.”
A police report says that Haggis allegedly assaulted the woman and then took her to the Papola Casale airport “on Sunday morning at the crack dawn” and left her there alone with “precarious physical and psychological conditions.” The airport staff gave her first aid and took her to the police, where she filed charges against Haggis, and then the police took her to a hospital.