The Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski was acquitted this Tuesday in Paris of the defamation complaint presented by the British actress Charlotte Lewis, who had accused him of rape when he was 16 years old.
At 90 years old, the director Roman Polanski, who was tried for the first time in France, had considered the interpreter’s accusation a “hateful lie”, which decided to take him to court for defamation, considering that those words added even more pain to the sexual assault allegedly suffered.
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The lawsuit referred exclusively to those words of the filmmaker, published in an interview with the French magazine Paris Match in December 2019, and not to the accusation of rape.
If Roman Polanski did not attend the trial, the complainant did, who reiterated that the defamation had hurt her “more than the rape,” which she denounced at a press conference during the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, 27 years after it supposedly took place.
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The director’s lawyers Roman Polanski They used during the hearing an interview that Lewis, now 56 years old, offered to the British tabloid News of the World, in which she confessed that she became a prostitute at the age of 14 and that in her adolescence she wanted to become Polanski’s lover.
The actress came to work alongside the Franco-Polish director in the film “Pirates,” released in 1986 and starring Walter Matthau.
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Several accusations of sexual assault or rape weigh against RomanPolanski, although he has never been convicted.
In 1977 he fled the United States where he was accused of having raped a minor and, since then, the justice of that country has demanded him to stand trial.
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