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Polanski Is House Arrested in Switzerland

celebritygossip — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:12:56 +0000

Roman Polanski, an Oscar-winning film director who is known for such movies as “The Pianist” and “Knife in Water”, is now house arrested in his sumptuous Swiss chalet. Recently he was freed from a jail and was placed on house arrest.

The famous filmmaker was thrown behind bars in Zurich on September 26, 2009, after an unexpected action arranged by prosecutors in Los Angeles and Washington. The authorities of Switzerland arrested Roman Polanski just as he arrived at the Zurich airport. A Swiss court on November, 25 approved the release of Polanski on bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs which is equal to $4.49 million. And after that Polanski was transferred to house arrest in the upscale ski resort of Gstaad on December 4.

The reason of the arrest was an international sexual assault of which he was charged more than 30 years ago. The world famous filmmaker was pleaded guilty of having illegal sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl at a Hollywood party. After that he had to flee to France in order to avoid the sentence in 1978 and since then has been living in exile. Nevertheless, some countries still have an interest in this pending case.

While the authorities in California would like to make Polanski fly back to the U.S.A. in order to face justice, there are a lot of famous filmmakers who signed for support Roman Polanski. Among them we can name Woody Allen, David Keith Lynch, Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Pedro Almodovar, Darren Aronofsky and many others. Such famous film stars as Fanny Ardant and Monica Bellucci) also expressed their regret about the arrest of Roman Polanski. Meanwhile, even the victim, Samantha Geimer, forgave Polanski and did not think he should face further jail time.

Roman Polanski Brought to Justice

celebritygossip — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:18:27 +0000

Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a teenage girl 31 year ago. But the famous movie director was arrested only last week. However, the fact that it took so much since the offence was not the most striking one. It was even more surprising to find out who his victim was.

Samantha Geimer lives in Hawaii and has three children now. The woman says that Polanski did the wrong thing and it was an awful mistake but he has paid for it. She does not think he poses any danger to society, though. She is the only one who has ever accused the award-winning director of anything like that.

In February this year the woman said that these years of publicity and the prosecutor’s inability to consider the major things only traumatized more and more. The woman claimed that the court tended to pay attention mostly to her and her family, what was really unpleasant and distressing. Thus, she decided to ask the court to dismiss the charges against Polanski.

When Samantha was 13 year old, she got an invitation for a private photo shoot at Jack Nicholson’s private home in LA. Samantha’s mother gave her permission and the young model was to be photographed by Polanski for the French edition of vogue. Later was a session at the spa pool and there she realized he got other intentions but could not do much.

In the court the girl testified then that the director had various sexual acts with her without her consent and after giving her drugs and champagne. Polanski was charged with sexual assault by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy and having lecherous acts with a child. However, the director pleaded guilty only to have a sexual intercourse with a minor.

On 1 February 1978 Polanski left the USA awaiting his sentence. It took 31 year to finally catch him and bring to justice.