Roman Polanski settled a lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault of a minor greater than 50 years in the past.
The Oscar-winning director not faces a 10-day trial within the U.S. after reaching a settlement.
“The case settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed,” Polanski’s consultant advised Fox Information Digital.
ROMAN POLANSKI TRIAL SCHEDULED FOR NEXT YEAR OVER ALLEGED 1973 RAPE OF MINOR
Roman Polanski and Jane Doe settled a lawsuit stemming from an alleged 1973 sexual assault. (Getty Photographs)
Gloria Allred, who represented the nameless accuser within the lawsuit, Jane Doe, offered the same assertion to Fox Information Digital.
“A settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction,” she stated.
Based on the settled civil go well with, Jane Doe allegedly met Polanski at a celebration in 1973 when she was a minor. She claimed he invited her to dinner figuring out she was underage. Doe alleged within the lawsuit that she met Polanski at his house in Benedict Canyon the evening they have been having dinner.
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He poured them pictures of tequila earlier than driving to Le Restaurant on La Cienega in Los Angeles, in accordance with the grievance. Their desk was not but prepared after they arrived, so that they waited on the bar, the place Polanski proceeded to order extra tequila for them each.
Roman Polanski was scheduled for an August 2025 trial in a 1973 sexual assault case. (Beata Zawrzel)
As soon as seated at their desk, “Plaintiff began feeling dizzy from the tequila and went to the restroom where she was ill,” paperwork acknowledged. She stepped outdoors for contemporary air, and Polanski adopted her out earlier than “driving her back to his house.”
Within the grievance, Doe didn’t recall “how she got from the car into Defendant’s home,” however she handed out in Polanski’s mattress. She awoke with the director subsequent to her, paperwork stated. “Defendant Polanski removed Plaintiff’s clothes, and he proceeded to rape her, causing her tremendous physical and emotional pain and suffering.”
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In 1977, Polanski fled the nation after pleading responsible to having illegal sexual activity with a minor, Samantha Geimer, in a separate case. The “Chinatown” director reunited with Geimer final yr.
Roman Polanski in court docket in 1977 after pleading responsible to illegal intercourse with a minor. (Getty Photographs)
Geimer was 13 years previous on the time Polanski, who was in his 40s, was arrested and charged with rape by use of medication, perversion, sodomy, offering managed substances to a minor and lewd and lascivious acts upon a baby below 14.
After his responsible plea in 1977, Polanski fled and have become a fugitive, first discovering refuge in London after which settling in France. Whereas Polanski has by no means stepped foot on U.S. soil or any nation that will extradite him to the USA, he has nonetheless made movies and received an Academy Award for finest director in 2002 for “The Pianist.”
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In 2018, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences voted to kick Polanski out and subsequently defended its resolution by saying he was given a good alternative to problem the Academy’s ruling.
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Polanski sued the Academy the next yr on grounds the group had did not comply with its personal procedures when it voted to kick him out. He was expelled alongside Invoice Cosby for violating the group’s requirements of conduct.
In its response, the Academy stated the board thought-about voluminous supplies submitted by Polanski on enchantment, together with greater than 400 pages of displays and an in depth memo from his legal professional. Polanski additionally recorded a videotaped assertion immediately addressing the board of governors.
