A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973.
FILE - Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his film,"Based on a True Story," in Krakow, Poland, on May 2, 2018. A woman has sued director Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
The woman who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was under 18, in 1973, months after she had met him at a party. She said Polanski gave her tequila shots at his home beforehand and at the restaurant. Defense attorney Alexander Rufus-Isaacs said in an email Tuesday that Polanski “strenuously denies the allegations made against him in the lawsuit and believes that the proper place to try this case is in the courts.”
In his legal response to the lawsuit, Polanski's attorney denies all of its allegations and asserts that the lawsuit is unconstitutional because it relies on a law not passed until 1990. In the lawsuit and at Tuesday's news conference, she did not give her name and said only that she was a minor at the time. She spoke only briefly.
In 1977, he was charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He reached an agreement with prosecutors that he would plead guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse and would not have to go to prison beyond the jail time he had already served.
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