The new development in the New York case comes less than two weeks after Haggis was detained in Italy after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
Italian news reports say a judge has ruled that Academy-Award-winning film director Paul Haggis should remain under detention in his hotel while prosecutors continue to investigate a woman s allegations that
Media titan Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, a model and actor, are getting divorced, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. Murdoch's divorce, his fourth, is unlikely to alter the ownership structure of the businesses he holds stakes in, which include parent companies of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. The family's shares in the companies that Murdoch founded reside in a strictly managed trust.
The British citizen who has accused Canadian-born screenwriter and director Paul Haggis of raping her in Italy told Italian police she was sexually assaulted twice by Haggis over several days, after joining him in the southern tourist town of Ostuni where he was headlining a film festival.