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Paul Haggis, perhaps known best by Bond fans for adapting the celebrated Ian Fleming novel Casino Royale into the 2006 feature film starring Daniel Craig, has come under fire and joined the long list of Hollywood elites being accused of sexual harassment.

A civil lawsuit filed in December of 2017, accusing the screenwriter of raping publicist Haleigh Breest has prompted three additional women to break their silence and come forward to Breest's attorneys with sexual misconduct accusations of their own, claiming to have been violated by the filmmaker between 1996 and 2015. The women were all struggling to make it in the entertainment industry when, they claim, that Haggis lured them to private or semi-private places under the pretense of discussing the future of their careers. One of the publicists professed that he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.

In a recent Associated Press interview, one of the other women chose to speak up disclosing the unnerving incident that allegedly occurred between the two. "I need to be inside you," she recollected him saying before she managed to escape.

The three newest accusers came clean to AP on the condition that they were not identified publicly out of extreme fear of retaliation from Haggis. Thankfully, the Associated Press generally does not identify those who claim to fall victim to sexual misconduct.

Another of the accusers claim that while visiting Canada in 2015, Haggis held her down and kissed her vigorously on a

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