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Taxi Driver and American Gigolo screenwriter Paul Schrader has been accused of sexually assaulting and harassing a former personal assistant, and then breaching contract by allegedly backing out of settlement payments. In a civil lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court on Thursday and obtained by The Independent and The Hollywood Reporter, a 26-year-old woman identified as Jane Doe alleges that the 78-year-old filmmaker subjected her to a “sexually hostile, intimidating, and humiliating…