Roman Polanski Breaks Silence, Says U.S. Wants to 'Serve Me on a Platter'

By PopEater Staff Posted May 3rd 2010 07:37AM

Roman Polanski has broken his silence after months of being under house arrest, saying prosecutors in the United States only want him extradited on a 33-year-old sex case to humiliate him and cause a media circus.

In comments to an online magazine run by one of his supporters, Polanski said: "I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago."

Polanski laid out his case while being holed up in his Alpine Swiss chalet.

"I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life," he wrote. "I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else."

Polanski suggests the case against him is unjust and riddled with problems. Each argument begins with the phrase: "I can remain silent no longer."

One of Polanski's complaints concerns Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, "who is handling this case and has requested (the) extradition, is himself campaigning for election and needs media publicity!" Cooley is running for California attorney general.

The district attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said the office "will withhold comment until the Swiss make a decision on his fugitive status."

Polanski fled the United States in 1978 on the eve of sentencing; he had pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual contact with a minor. Her attorney argued she had the right to ask that the case be dismissed and urged the court to do so.

Polanski was accused of plying the teen with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill, then raping her during a modeling shoot at Jack Nicholson's house in 1977.

Polanski was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse in a plea bargain.

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Comments

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Monday 03 May

By davf62599

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So this is what happens to the brain when you get away with rape for all these years...YOU FEEL ENTITLED like you're the victim! Hollywood would probably give him an Oscar an a standing ovation!

By computergeek

In this world, money buys everything. Especially if you also happen to be famous and have high profile friends that will stick up for you, even when you rape and sodomize a young girl. He has had his time, and now it's time for him to pay. They should stick him in GP. Bet he wouldn't take "rape" so lightly then!

By WILL

OF COURSE WE WANT TO SERVE HIM UP ON A PLATTER , JUST B/C HE HAS MONEY AND FAME DOESNT MAKE HIM ABOVE THE LAW , THOUGH HE THINKS SO

By Peter Moore

Hey Roman BABY .. any other 40 year old MAN having given alcohol and having sex witha 13 year old is endangering the welfare of a minor, and statutory RAPE.... those are crimes, so you created the media circus. by being a Horn DOG PRICK, keep you pants zipped and stay away from MINORS... GET IT....And maybe when you go to Jail you might get a big burly roomie named WALT that may show you what its like to be FUKed...

By Wayne

"I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else."

Yeah, and jumping bail ain't a big deal. I say lock him up with Charles Manson and then broadcast it on PPV.

Tuesday 04 May

By pepper11

She looks like Goldie Hawn in The First Wives Club after her collagen injection.

By gary williams

Jackie
I had sympathy for the child when it happened. Like i said i don't believe she was his only victim. I think she has a responsibility to make sure he cannot get near another child ever again.

Monday 17 May

By beatledonny

such hate,,may god this rape happend over thrity years ago..GET OVER IT,,, even the damn victim doesnt give a damn,,,why the hell should any of YOU?

By Teresa

Polanski came to an settlement some years ago with the woman who was a teen when all this happened. And the judge in office at the time was planning to renege on a plea deal that Polanski's attorneys had made for him. Polanski found out THE NIGHT BEFORE his court appearance. I would have fled too. This whole fiasco is surfacing NOW that the judge at the time is now deceased, and LA County needs to flex its muscle after 2 previous failures on celeb convictions(Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson)

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