Five more women come forward to accuse Roman Polanski of sexual assault - including one who says she was just nine when he attacked her
By Jennifer Smith
Daily Mail
November 7, 2017
Five more women have come forward to accuse Roman Polanski of molesting them when they were children.
They women described how the convicted child rapist, now 84, sexually assaulted them in the late 1960s and 70s before he went on the run for the statutory rape of another underage girl.
The five new anonymous victims revealed their stories to imetpolanski.com, a new website set up in the wake of multiplying sexual assault accusations against Hollywood figures.
Its founder Matan Uziel shared details of their allegations with The Sun on Tuesday.
Among them is one woman who claims Polanski molested her in 1972 or 1973 when she was nine years old. He was around 39.
Another claims he 'squeezed and rubbed' her genitals in 1976 when she was 15 and he was 43 as they sat a dinner table with her parents and actors Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston in the Alpine Swiss town of Gstaad.
'Polanski sat on my left side, put his hand on my leg. He then proceeded to touch my genitals and tried to squeeze and rub it with his hand, all that under the table in front of my father's face,' she said.
It was at Nicholson's Hollywood home where the director drugged and raped Samantha Geimer in 1977 whens he was 13.
She added that Gstaad, where Polanski was pictured last month, was a safe haven for pedophiles.
'Gstaad is a corrupt place. Beautiful but rotten from within.
'It was and is a sanctuary for well known pedophiles and perverts who want to molest children, far away from any danger, far away from the press.
'When you pay high taxes and throw your money, they turn a blind eye,' she said.
The new accusations bring the total number of women who have accused Polanski of assault to 10.
Of the new accusers, two say they were attacked by him in 1969, the same year in which his first wife Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Charles Manson family.
It is not clear whether the alleged attacks happened before or after her slaying. The other alleged attack happened in 1976 when the woman was 12.
Four other women previously described how Polanski abused them.
They include Marianne Barnard, an artist who says he photographed her nude and then molested her on a beach in Malibu, California, when she was just 10.
Her mother arranged the meeting, she said.
German actress Renate Langer claimed on October 3 that she was attacked by him in Gstaad in 1972. Swiss police are investigating her accusation.
She revealed how he attacked her in an interview with The New York Times, admitting that she was too afraid to tell her parents about it at the time.
In August, a woman who identified herself only as Robin M. claimed at a press conference that she was attacked by Polanski when she was 16 in 1973.
She said the incident happened in southern California but would not go into further detail. She is not suing him but offered to testify against him to stop his 1978 arrest warrant from being dropped.
Charlotte Lewis, a British actress, also claims to have been assaulted by Polanski.
She said he forced himself on her as she auditioned for a role in one of his films in Paris in 1983. By this time, Polanski was already on the run for having raped Geimer six years earlier.
She reported her accusations to police in Los Angeles but not in Paris where the alleged attack took place.
Polanski remains on the run after fleeing the US following his 1977 attack on Geimer.
He has been pleading for years to have the 1978 arrest warrant thrown out so that he can return to America.
He fled to France days before he was due to go to court over the attack. At the time, Polanski had reached a deal with prosecutors which meant he would serve a shorter sentence.
He got cold feet at the last minute and fled, convinced that he was being set up and that they would be tricked into a harsher prison term.
Geimer has long forgiven him for the attack and, earlier this year, she pleaded with authorities in Los Angeles to allow him back into the country. Courts in Switzerland and France have both refused to extradite him.
In Los Angeles, he is protected by California's now outdated statute of limitations which, until 2016, meant sex crimes had to be prosecuted within 10 years of them happening unless new evidence which could be tested with DNA technology emerged.
The law has since changed in rape cases but crimes which none of those allegedly committed by Polanski are recent enough to now be tried.
Polanski now lives in Paris with his 51-year-old wife Emmanuelle Seigner.
At a recent event to promote his latest film, the pair came under fire from protesters who painted the words 'very important pedocriminal' over their bare bodies.
His lawyer Harland Braun did not respond to questions regarding the new accusations against him on Tuesday.
Interest in Polanski's past as a high-profile child rapist has been refreshed by the growing accusations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein.
None of the women who have identified themselves as victims of the movie mogul were under 18 when they say he attacked them. A number remain unnamed.
Police are now watching the country's borders to ensure Weinstein does not attempt to flee as Polanski did in 1978.
'We don’t want another Roman Polanski on our hands,' one police source told Page Six.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This sorry, but celebrated, piece of shit could have gotten his just deserves, except for some bad timing by Charlie Manson.
1 comment:
Polanski is a foreign national and France will not extradite their own citizens. Harvey the perv has no such protection. That doesn't mean he couldn't flee to some place without an extradition treaty.
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