Roman Polanski settles 1973 underage rape case before heading to trial

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States decades agone aft confessing to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl, has settled a separate underage rape lawsuit that was acceptable to spell to proceedings adjacent year.

The civilian suit — which acrophobic an alleged intersexual battle successful 1973 — was filed successful Los Angeles County Superior Court successful June 2023, but the plaintiff’s attorney, Gloria Allred, confirmed connected Wednesday it has since been withdrawn.

Allred said “a colony of claims was agreed to by the parties to their communal satisfaction,” successful a connection to NBC News.

In a akin connection to Agence France-Presse, Polanski’s U.S-based attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, said the substance was resolved “in the summer,” and that it has present been “formally dismissed.”

In the suit, the unidentified plaintiff alleged Polanski raped her successful 1973, “causing her tremendous carnal and affectional symptom and suffering.”

She said she met Polanski, who was allegedly alert that she was underage, astatine a enactment and past agreed to articulation him for meal a fewer months later. Prior to their outing, she said Polanski plied her with tequila, offering her 2 shots portion they were astatine his Benedict Canyon home.

When they arrived astatine the restaurant, their array wasn’t ready, truthful they sat astatine the bar, wherever “The Pianist” manager ordered her much tequila, according to the tribunal filing. She recalled feeling sick soon thereafter, truthful Polanski drove her backmost to his location and she promptly passed retired successful his bed.

When she came to, Polanski was allegedly laying adjacent to her and told her he “wanted to person enactment with her.” Despite turning him down, the famed manager started removing his apparel and past raped her, according to the lawsuit, cited by USA Today.

Polanski’s lawyers antecedently denied the claim.

The allegations are somewhat akin to those successful another decades-old statuary rape case brought against Polanski.

In 1977, helium was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, but helium went connected to scope an statement with prosecutors, requiring that helium plead blameworthy to a lesser complaint of unlawful intersexual intercourse. In exchange, helium would not person to spell to situation beyond the jailhouse clip helium had already served.

The pursuing year, Polanski fled the state connected the eve of his sentencing aft learning the justice intended to renege connected their statement and nonstop him backmost down bars. He’s been a fugitive ever since, but has continued making movies.

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