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Paul Haggis Settles Rape Lawsuit From Ex-Film Publicist

Paul Haggis Settles Rape Lawsuit From Ex-Film Publicist

Paul Haggis will pay nearly $2 million to settle a lawsuit from a former film publicist who prevailed in a 2022 rape trial against the Crash director. In one of several #MeToo era cases, the ex-publicist, Haleigh Breest, accused Haggis of rape and forcing her to perform oral sex in his Manhattan apartment in 2013. At the time, Haggis denied the allegations and maintained that he couldn’t recall whether they had sex. A jury ultimately sided with Breest and ordered him to pay roughly $7.5 million, with the judge later adding $2.8 million for legal fees. Under the settlement, Haggis agreed to pay more than $1.9 million to resolve the case, according to a court notice filed on Monday. “The parties to this action have amicably resolved all disputes,” the document said. The 2022 verdict came around the same time another civil jury, also in New York, found that Kevin Spacey didn’t sexually abuse a fellow actor. In Los Angeles, Harvey Weinstein and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson were also on trial on criminal rape charges. …

Inside haggis: The secrets of Scotland’s national dish

Inside haggis: The secrets of Scotland’s national dish

CNN  —  Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell. “Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.” A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability. Instagrammable is not the word that immediately comes to mind. In our 21st-century world, where “clean” eating and processed pap overlap, haggis can seem like an “Outlander”-style outlier from another age. Yet, by some alchemy, once cooked to its required “warm-reekin’ (steaming)” state, it adds up to much more than the sum of its modest parts. …