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In dueling lawsuits a two-time Oscar winning filmmaker is suing a Manhattan publicist accusing her of extortion, while the woman’s countersuit says the married Hollywood fixture brutally raped her in his Soho apartment five years ago.

“Million Dollar Baby” screenwriter Paul Haggis says in his suit that a “maelstrom of media attention” about allegations of sexual misconduct by male elites “has created an opportunity for persons whose motives and intentions are not so pure, and who are looking for a ride on this cultural wave, to take advantage.”

The married 64-year-old filmmaker had what he “believed was a friendly, and at times flirtatious, relationship” with his 31-year-old accuser, Haleigh Breest. She works as a publicist for a company that hosts movie industry events.

The Atlanta native met Haggis at a movie premiere on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Jan. 31, 2013, according to her suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court a few hours after his on Friday.

Breest says Haggis offered her a ride home after the event and then invited her out for a drink. She said she was willing to go to a bar, but he insisted they go to his Mercer Street residence, her suit says.

“Once inside, Mr. Haggis almost immediately began to make unwanted sexual advances and to forcibly kiss her,” Breest says in court papers.

“She repeatedly told him “No” but he would not stop,” she says.

“Apparently sensing she was afraid, Mr. Haggis said in an aggressive and menacing tone, You’re scared of me, aren’t you?’” she recalls in the suit.

She recalls the movie producer removing his Banana Republic boxers.

Haggis then “violently” tore off her tights, forced her to give him oral sex, “aggressively inserted his finger into her vagina” and then raped her, the suit says.

She lost consciousness, the suit says. She woke up alone in a bedroom and fled the apartment, according to court papers. That same day she told two friends what happened, visited a Planned Parenthood clinic for an STD test and eventually went to see a shrink.

She didn’t go to police or speak out about the assault “due to a combination of trauma, fear and shame,” her suit says.

But in his suit Haggis insists, “there was no such violence,” adding that he was recovering from back surgery at the time of the alleged incident.

Instead he calls Breest an extortionist.

Her lawyer wrote him a letter on Nov. 16 with a draft lawsuit accusing him of “gender violence,” according to his complaint.

Weeks later, on Dec. 11, the accuser’s attorney demanded “a seven figure pay day…in order to avoid the threatened lawsuit,” he says in court papers.

“The clear goal of defendant’s demand for such an absurd amount of money…is to scare him into giving this windfall to her to avoid his public hanging” Haggis says in court papers.

“This is, quite simply, extortion,” says the director, who won back-to-back Oscars for “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash.”

The accuser’s “outrageous threats” have caused him “crippling anxiety,” according to court papers. He’s suing for unspecified money damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Breest has had her own struggles— “with a lack of confidence, anxiety, and body image issues,” her suit says.

She decided to come forward after Haggis condemned Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for being a “predator,” according to court papers. Her suit does not include a dollar figure.