Where’s the $10 million, baby?
Disgraced “Crash” director Paul Haggis is charging over $300 for acting classes in Italy — while dodging the rape accuser he owes $10 million in damages.
Haggis, 70, started sending out email fliers for three-day intensives titled “Acting Workshops with Paul Haggis” in September, the Daily Beast reported.
The Academy Award winner promised 20 participants the opportunity to practice scenes during the classes, which were set to take place in Rome, the outlet said.
The course — which, according to one November advertisement, “fills up quickly” — cost $350 each.
The “Million Dollar Baby” screenwriter is also set to teach a revamped workshop this month focusing on the audition process, the Daily Beast said, citing emails sent from the account “haggisclass@gmail.com.”
But while Haggis tries to set up a new gig abroad, he has yet to cough up a cent of the $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages that he owes to Haleigh Breest, the outlet explained.
Breest, a former film publicist, sued Haggis in 2017, alleging that he raped her after a premiere in 2013.
Breest was 26 and Haggis was 59 at the time of the alleged attack.
During the 2022 sexual assault trial, Haggis’ lawyer argued that the lauded filmmaker’s $25 million fortune was “decimated” by legal fees and two divorces.
“He’s not going to be able to pay the judgment you’ve already created. And there’s no way he can pay anything further,” attorney Priya Chaudry told the court, The Post reported at the time.
The jury, however, ultimately ordered Haggis to pay Breest $7.5 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages.
Since the ruling — which Haggis dismissed as “lies” — Breest had continued to battle to get the director to pay up.
In late December, the court granted her petition to force the sale of Haggis’ $2.9 million Soho apartment and give her the proceeds, the Daily Beast reported.
Breest is also challenging Haggis’ former wife, actress Deborah Rennard, who she says conspired with her ex-husband to hide his assets, the outlet continued.
Over the summer, Breest filed a petition that claimed Haggis gave Rennard money and property to avoid paying the damages.
Rennard is now ordered to appear in court later this month to face the allegations that she transferred $20,000 to her ex in violation of a restraining notice, the Daily Beast revealed.
In a separate suit filed last month, Breest also accused Rennard and Haggis of a “years-long efforts to hinder, delay or defraud Breest through evading enforcement of the anticipated Judgments by purportedly placing Haggis’s assets out of his hands and into Rennard’s.”
Rennard — who was married to Haggis from 1997 to 2016 — “vehemently denies the claims and allegations asserted by the plaintiff and will rely on her rebuttal filing submitted to and pending with the court,” her attorney told the Daily Beast.
In addition to Breest’s damages, Haggis is also staring down a lawsuit from a legal services company his attorneys used before the sex assault trial, which claims he owes over $73,000 in unpaid fees, the outlet noted.
The case is set to go to trial in New York Supreme Court in November — but Haggis has yet to respond.
