Director Polanski wins libel case

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Roman Polanski has been awarded £50,000 libel damages from a magazine which said he propositioned a woman shortly after his wife was murdered.

Vanity Fair had claimed the director made sexual advances to the woman at a New York restaurant on the way to his wife's Sharon Tate's funeral in 1969.

Publisher Conde Nast had conceded the article was inaccurate in terms of dates, but the gist of it held true.

Mr Polanski denied it happened, saying it "dishonours my memory of Sharon".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4706619.stm

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1. How cool! He won, and also got away with statutory rape.

Sorry. He fled the U.S. like a coward. Screwing that kid also "dishonored his memory of Sharon." She was THIRTEEN years old, for Christ's sake. What a pig, what a hypocrite. He knows jack shit about "honor."

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/artists/roman-polanski/



"Don't tell your mom." You've gotta know you just committed a crime when that's what you say to your sex partner in the afterglow.

In 1977, Roman Polanski, took thirteen-year-old Samantha Geimer over to Jack Nicholson's house in Bel Air while the actor was away. Polanski, director of the films Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, had arranged to snap photos of the girl in her swimsuit, for the French edition of Vogue.

Eventually, the pair took a dip in the hot tub, and Roman gave the girl champagne and quaaludes. Afterwards, there was fucking. But then Samantha did tell her mom. Polanski was arrested shortly thereafter and charged with six criminal counts:

1. rape of a minor
2. rape by use of a drug
3. committing a lewd act upon a person less than 14 years of age
4. oral copulation
5. Sodomy
6. furnishing drugs to a minor

Ultimately, Polanski took a plea bargain and acquiesced to one count of unlawful sex with a minor. But then he fled to France before the sentencing hearing. He has never been back to the United States since.