Talk:Roman Polanski

Interesting

"As we noted in 1978, “What is genuinely ‘tawdry’ and sordid about the Polanski case is not the actual incident itself, but the vile official persecution and the hideous hypocrisy of it all. The national press has carefully ‘omitted’ the real facts of the case …

“The 13-year-old whom Polanski was accused of raping was described in the Los Angeles Times … as ‘an aspiring actress’, whose mother had known Polanski for over a year and given permission to photograph her daughter for the French edition of Vogue magazine. One of those photography sessions with the celebrated director turned into an evening of sipping champagne, nude bathing in a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath and consumption by the girl of part of a Quaalude (a fashionable sedative). Following this, there was sexual intercourse (translated in the press as ‘drugging and raping’).

“It came out in court, however, that the girl had been ‘experimenting’ with Quaaludes since the age of 10 or 11, and had a 17-year-old boyfriend with whom she had had prior sexual intercourse” (‘Stop vendetta against Roman Polanski! Free him now! No extradition!’ Workers Vanguard October 9 2009)."[1]