Posts with tag "romanpolanski"

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 ...

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Hot Searches: Mysteries of Britney Spears 3 Lyrics and 'Born to Run' Solved

Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 12:27 PM by Sam Brand

Wondering why Britney Spears 3 lyrics, Samantha Geimer, Conan O'Brien and Born To Run album are surging in Google Trends? We can shed some light on the mystery - the bonus feature of the Google search engine provides the 100 most-searched terms of the hour. Of course, the results change frequently, but at any given time, it's a great snapshot of what's on people's minds regarding pop culture. This ...

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Roman Polanski Wants Out of Detention

Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 10:00 AM by Chris Jancelewicz

That didn't take long. Roman Polanski filed a petition early Tuesday to be released from detention in Switzerland, after the Academy-Award-winning director was nabbed on a 1978 sex charge. The Swiss court said it will take "the next few weeks" to make a decision on the matter. Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, has asked a host of film celebrities to join her fight to prevent the director ...

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Victim Forgave Polanski, But Not Media

Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 04:01 PM by PopEater Staff

While Roman Polanski was arrested over the weekend for a statutory rape he committed more than thirty years ago, he has had one very unlikely person defending him in recent years -- his victim. Samantha Geimer, who was 13 years old when Polanski raped her at Jack Nicholson's house in 1977, recently filed a formal request asking Los Angeles prosecutors to drop charges against Polanski. In ...

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Polanski to Fight Extradition; France and Poland Ask Clinton for Help

Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 10:54 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

Roman Polanski has "refused the extradition request" that would send him from Switzerland to the United States to face justice in a 32-year-old sex case, the film director's France-based lawyer said in a statement on Monday. Herve Temime, who calls the U.S. extradition request "illegal," has indicated that a Swiss attorney for Polanski will file a motion for his release from Swiss custody. An ...

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Roman Polanski's Arrest Could Lead to His Freedom

Posted Sep 27th 2009 at 10:09 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

Police in Switzerland took Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski into custody on statutory rape charges that the director has been avoiding for more than thirty years. Polanski, now 76, pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old in 1977 in the United States, but fled the country before he could be sentenced and a warrant for his arrest was issued in 1978. He had been living in France ever ...