Posts with tag "roman polanski"

Polanski Victim Wants Charges Dropped

Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 09:15 AM by PopEater Staff

The woman who was raped by Roman Polanski when she was 13 years old has asked a Los Angeles court to dismiss the charges against the director, who is fighting extradition to the U.S. following his arrest in Zurich last month. Samantha Geimer says she has been barraged with media inquiries since Polanski's arrest, and that since she's publicly forgiven the 'Chinatown' director for his crime, she'd ...

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Roman Polanski's Max Sentence? 2 Years

Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 06:43 AM by PopEater Staff

A Swiss official says Roman Polanski can only be sentenced to two years in prison in the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli told Europe-1 radio that Polanski could only serve time in California for crimes included in a U.S. extradition request filed late Thursday. Galli didn't say specifically whether Polanski was being pursued for fleeing ...

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Roman Polanski's Mystery Illness

Posted Oct 19th 2009 at 06:57 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

One of Roman Polanski's lawyers says the jailed filmmaker is undergoing medical tests, though his current condition "is not of exceptional gravity." The Paris-based lawyer declined to say what kind of exams Polanski had undergone. A Swiss tabloid newspaper Blick printed pictures Saturday of a van it said had whisked the director from the prison to a Zurich hospital. ...

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Star: Polanski's Loved Because He's White

Posted Oct 13th 2009 at 07:18 AM by PopEater Staff

Never one to mince words, Star Jones is coming out against those who are lending support to jailed director Roman Polanski, saying that if a black director admitted to having sex with a minor, he or she wouldn't have been allowed to camp out in France for 30+ years. "He's white, he's rich ... I didn't stutter. I think it's a class and a privilege thing," Jones said during a discussion on 'The ...

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Polanski Depressed in Jail, Lawyer Says

Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 09:54 AM by PopEater Staff

Two weeks after being arrested in Switzerland to face extradition to the United States, Roman Polanksi is languishing behind bars. "I found him to be tired and depressed," his lawyer, Herve Temime, told a Sontag newspaper, Reuters reports. "Roman Polanski, who is 76, seemed very dejected when I visited him," Temime explained to another paper. ...

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Roman Polanski Release Request Denied

Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 03:15 PM by Chris Jancelewicz

Swiss authorities have rejected an appeal to release Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski from jail. The film director was arrested last month after fleeing the United States in 1978 to avoid sentencing in an underage sex case. Reuters is reporting that authorities are also urging the Swiss court dealing with his extradition warrant to reject another appeal by Polanski's lawyers to have him ...

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'High Risk' Roman Polanski Loses Bail Bid

Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 09:21 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

Roman Polanski lost his first bid to win his freedom Tuesday as the Swiss Justice Ministry rejected an appeal by the 76-year-old to be immediately released from prison, an official said. "We continue to be of the opinion that there is a high risk of flight," said ministry spokesman Folco Galli, explaining the decision. Galli told The Associated Press that the risk was too great for the ...

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Polanski Agreed to Pay Victim $500K, but Records Indicate He Stalled

Posted Oct 3rd 2009 at 09:30 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the United States, according to court documents. Polanski and the victim, Samantha Geimer, reached the deal in October 1993. The terms of the settlement were confidential, but the amount was disclosed in court documents because of a two-year struggle to get Polanski to pay. ...

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Prosecutor Says He Lied in Polanski Film to 'Make Stuff Look Better'

Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 08:56 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison, according to an indieWIRE report. In 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' David F. Wells is depicted as conferring with a trial judge more than 30 years ago about Polanski's case. Wells said in the documentary that the judge took his advice in ...

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Whoopi: Roman Polanski Didn't Commit 'Rape-Rape'

Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 12:00 PM by Soraya Roberts

Outspoken comedienne and 'View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg has come out to defend filmmaker Roman Polanski, claiming that he did not commit "rape-rape." Goldberg was responding to the director's arrest in Switzerland on Saturday for a 30-year-old rape conviction. Polanski is facing extradition to the US after having fled the country in 1978 following his conviction, which involved a 13-year-old ...