Roman Polanski acquitted of defaming woman who accused him of rape
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antilia — 1 year ago(June 24, 2024 02:33 PM)
The woman he is accused of raping as a teenager disputed a claim Polanski made in 2019 that the woman was in love with him at the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/14/roman-polanski-acquitted-of-defamation-by-french-court-charlotte-lewis
British actor Charlotte Lewis had claimed she was made the victim of a ‘smear campaign’ after she accused the director of raping her when she was a teenager. Lewis told the court in March that she became the victim of a “smear campaign” that “nearly destroyed” her life after she spoke up about abuse that took place in the 1980s.
“He raped me,” the 56-year-old actor told the court, explaining it had taken her time to put a name on the incident that occurred in Paris when she was 16.
Polanski is wanted in the United States over the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in 1977 and faces several other accusations of sexual assault dating back decades and past the statute of limitations – all claims he has rejected. He fled to Europe in 1978.
Where the alleged defamation occurred:
Lewis in 2010 accused Polanski of abusing her “in the worst possible way” as a 16-year-old in 1983 in Paris after she travelled there for a casting session. She appeared in his 1986 film Pirates.
The film-maker said that it was a “heinous lie” in a 2019 interview with Paris Match magazine. According to Paris Match, he pulled out a copy of a 1999 article in now-defunct British tabloid newspaper News of the World, and quoted Lewis as saying in it: “I wanted to be his lover.”
Lewis has said the quotes attributed to her in that interview were not accurate. She filed a complaint for defamation, and the film director was automatically charged under French law. -
∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(June 24, 2024 02:43 PM)
This
Charlotte Lewis
who appeared in
this film
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Well, there's a bunch of folk here who support the kind of behaviour Roman Polanski has been convicted of and so I guess you'll get that side of the story from them
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ToastedCheese — 6 months ago(September 21, 2025 11:55 PM)
Polanski was already a fugitive from the US, due to media hyperbole and a corrupt judge handling his case. It doesn’t make sense he’d engage in similar.
I’d even go as far to say that his fleeing was something that was welcomed by the Californian legal system and that Polanski was assisted to save Judge Rittenband more embarrassment.
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/. — 1 year ago(June 24, 2024 03:08 PM)
idc. women coming forward 50 years too late is getting tiring. they don't mind the "rape" when they benefit from it but decades later they suddenly want "justice" after he's already raped god knows how many other girls
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(June 24, 2024 04:09 PM)
Yeah, how odd that she claims he raped her and she goes on and is in his movie anyway?
That would be like being friends with the serial killer in prison who murdered your wife and kids and you loved them.
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SealedCargo — 1 year ago(August 24, 2024 04:16 AM)
u guys are defending mouse boy like all the hollywooders who had to apologize after metoo took over
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