The trial of Roman Polanski for the rape accusation was scheduled in a Los Angeles court for August 2025 but has been canceled, according to the French public broadcaster TF1, due to having reached an agreement with the complainant. The identity or age of the plaintiff is unknown.
Last year, a woman filed a complaint against the film director for an alleged rape in 1973, when she was 13 years old. These events were prescribed for a criminal trial but they had followed a civil route, a procedure that did not force Polanski to attend the trial and therefore enter the United States, a country that claims him and considers him a fugitive since 1977 for another case of alleged rape of a minor (which was reduced to “illicit sexual relations”).
The case “was resolved during the summer after the mutual satisfaction of the parties” as the lawyer of Roman Polanski, who turned 91 this summer, told AFP.
“The plaintiff remembers that she woke up in the defendant’s bed with him lying next to her (…) The plaintiff, although dazed, told the defendant: ‘Please don’t do it,’” the court document described. . The incident occurred after the two met at a party and he invited her to dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles.
The complainant’s lawyer is Gloria Allred, a well-known lawyer for the Me Too movement but also a defender of Harvey Weinstein. Although the facts were made public in 2017, the complaint was not filed until June 2023, when the deadline set by California law for reporting sexual assaults dating back years was about to expire.
Between 2017 and 2019, other women accused the director of rapes that occurred in the 1970s.
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