July 19, 2005
Polanski tells of 'sex therapy'
By Michael Horsnell
Libel jury hears how film-maker seduced many women after the Manson ‘family’ killed his wife
ROMAN POLANSKI found himself on the other end of the camera yesterday as he told a libel jury by video link of his sexual adventures after the murder of Sharon Tate, his pregnant wife.
The diminutive film director who won an Oscar for The Pianist in 2003, listed a catalogue of conquests that began within a month of the actress’s death at the hands of the notorious Charles Manson “family” in 1969. Seeking solace in sex, he admitted taking “fresh-faced nubile” teenagers from finishing school in Gstaad, Switzerland, to his bed within four months of the murders of Miss Tate and four of their friends at the couple’s Hollywood home.
But that was only after he had seduced an air hostess, a “sexy young model who gave me the come-on for weeks”, and had a one-night stand with Michelle Phillips, the wife of John Phillips, both stars in the pop group Mamas and the Papas.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1699286,00.html