Editing Roman Polanski (section)

=== Sexual abuse ===
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[[File:Mug shot of Roman Polanski.png|thumb|left|upright|Mugshot of Polanski following his 1977 arrest]]
On 11 March 1977, three years after making ''Chinatown'', Polanski was arrested at the [[Beverly Wilshire Hotel]] for the [[Roman Polanski sexual abuse case|sexual assault]] of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. Gailey had modeled for Polanski during a ''Vogue'' photoshoot the previous day around the swimming pool at the [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]] home of {{nowrap|[[Jack Nicholson]].<ref name=ergupimsv>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gNZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6787%2C2869933 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=UPI |title=Polanski charged with rape |date=13 March 1977 |page=10A |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=27 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227043851/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gNZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6787%2C2869933 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=fmachwr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1ztOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6825%2C4877886 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Film artist charged with rape |date=13 March 1977 |page=A5}}</ref>}} Polanski was indicted on six counts of criminal behavior, including rape.<ref name="WTCIFTC"/><ref name="BBC2009-09-28"/> At his arraignment, he pleaded not guilty to all charges. Many executives in Hollywood came to his defense.<ref name="Polanski Pleads Not Guilty in Drug-Rape Case"/> Gailey's attorney arranged a [[plea bargain]] in which five of the six charges would be dismissed, and Polanski accepted.<ref name="Romney2008-10-05"/>

[[File:Roman Polański.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Polanski in 2007]]
As a result of the plea bargain, Polanski pleaded guilty to the charge of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor",<ref name="onecle"/><ref name="Palmer2009-09-28"/> and was ordered to undergo 90 days of psychiatric evaluation at [[California Institution for Men]] at Chino.<ref name="Court Orders Polanski Kept in Jail"/> Upon release from prison after 42 days, Polanski agreed to the plea bargain, his penalty to be [[time served]] along with [[probation]]. However, he learned afterward that the judge, [[Laurence J. Rittenband]], had told some friends that he was going to disregard the plea bargain and sentence Polanski to 50 years in prison:<ref name="Palmer2009-09-28"/><ref name="bostonglobe"/> "I'll see this man never gets out of jail", he told Polanski's friend, screenwriter [[Howard E. Koch]].<ref name=Douglas>Douglas, Edward. ''Jack: The Great Seducer'', Harper Collins (2004) p. 183</ref> Gailey's attorney confirmed the judge changed his mind after he met the judge in his chambers:
{{blockquote|He was going to sentence Polanski, rather than to time served, to fifty years. What the judge did was outrageous. We had agreed to a plea bargain and the judge had approved it.<ref name=Douglas/><ref>"How Roman Polanski Fled Country", ''Globe'' UK, March 18, 2003</ref>}}

Polanski was told by his attorney that "the judge could no longer be trusted" and that the judge's representations were "worthless".<ref name="documentary2"/> Polanski decided not to appear at his sentencing. He told his friend, producer [[Dino De Laurentiis]], "I've made up my mind. I'm getting out of here."<ref name=Douglas/> {{nowrap|On 31 January 1978,}} the day before sentencing, Polanski left the country on a flight to {{nowrap|[[London]],<ref name=pfusmcd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UOAjAAAAIBAJ&pg=3608%2C7176 |work=Milwaukee Journal |agency=AP, UPI |title=Polanski flees US, misses court date |date=1 February 1978 |page=1, part 1 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=pducout>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCFOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5794%2C285871 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Polanski ducks out on court |date=2 February 1978 |page=5 |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=27 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227043852/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCFOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5794%2C285871 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} where he had a home. One day later, he left for {{nowrap|France.<ref name=poinprs>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ga5VAAAAIBAJ&pg=6619%2C306018 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |title=Polanski in Paris; extradition unlikely |date=2 February 1978 |page=4A |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=27 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227043924/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ga5VAAAAIBAJ&pg=6619%2C306018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NewYorker"/>}} As a French [[Citizenship|citizen]], he has been protected from extradition and has lived mostly in France since then.<ref name="Dyer2009-09-29"/>

In 1979, Polanski gave a controversial interview with novelist [[Martin Amis]] in which, discussing the case, he said "If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see?  But ... fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!"<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/ |title=Roman Polanski: 'Everyone else fancies little girls too' |date=September 29, 2009 |first=Michael |last=Deacon |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=October 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002184012/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/ |archive-date=October 2, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Imperial Roman|work=[[National Review Online]]|date=October 5, 2009|author=[[Kathryn Jean Lopez]]|url=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjk4MWYxMzRmN2E3NWIyMDBiYmJmNjEyOGQ2YWFhYzU=|access-date=October 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008004145/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjk4MWYxMzRmN2E3NWIyMDBiYmJmNjEyOGQ2YWFhYzU=|archive-date=October 8, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=S. T.|last=VanAirsdale|title=Are All These Sex Scandals Turning You On?|url=http://www.esquire.com/the-side/hollywood/american-sex-scandals-100709#ixzz0Th32QDxv|work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|access-date=October 12, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Washington Post|date=October 2, 2009|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104203.html|title=Hollywood's Shame|author-link=Eugene Robinson (journalist) |first=Eugene |last=Robinson |access-date=October 12, 2009}}</ref>

In 1988, Gailey sued Polanski. Among other things, the suit alleged sexual assault, [[false imprisonment]], seduction of a minor, and [[intentional infliction of emotional distress]]. In 1993, Polanski agreed to settle with his victim. In August 1996, Polanski still owed her $604,416; court filings confirm that the settlement was completed by 1997 via a confidential financial arrangement.<ref name="Ryan2009-10-03"/> The victim, now married and going by the name Samantha Geimer, stated in a 2003 interview with [[Larry King]] that the police and media had been slow at the time of the assault to believe her account, which she attributed to the social climate of the era.<ref name="2003 Larry King Transcript"/> In 2008, she stated, "I don't wish for him to be held to further punishment or consequences."<ref name="Ryan2009-10-03"/>

On 26 September 2009, Polanski was arrested while in Switzerland at the request of United States authorities.<ref name="AFP2009-09-27"/> The arrest brought renewed attention to the case and stirred controversy, particularly in the United States and Europe.<ref name="bostonglobe"/> Polanski was defended by many prominent individuals, [[2009 Roman Polanski Petition|including Hollywood celebrities]] and European artists and politicians, who called for his release.<ref name="outcry"/> American public opinion was reported to run against him,<ref name="reaction"/><ref name="Reuters"/> and polls in France and Poland showed that strong majorities favored his [[extradition]] to the United States.<ref name="ft"/><ref name="inpoland"/>

Polanski was jailed near Zurich for two months, then put under [[house arrest]] at his home in [[Gstaad]] while awaiting the results of his extradition appeals.<ref name="Roman Polanski begins house arrest at his Swiss chalet"/> On 12 July 2010, the Swiss rejected the United States' request, declared Polanski a "free man" and released him from custody.<ref name="nytimes1"/> A year later, he was invited to the 2011 [[Zurich Film Festival]] where he received a lifetime achievement award.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/28/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival Roman Polanski gets Zurich film festival award after two-year wait] ''The Guardian''. 27 Sep 2011. Accessed 15 April 2023.</ref> An [[Interpol notice|Interpol red notice]] was issued in 1978 after he fled the United States, limiting his movements to France, Switzerland, and Poland.<ref>{{cite news |last=Melley |first=Brian |date=9 June 2017 |title=Roman Polanski's victim asks judge to end 40-year-old case against him |work=USA TODAY |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/06/09/polanski-victim-asks-judge-to-end-case-against-director/102676720/ |access-date=30 March 2020 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="vanityfair2020" /> However, his name is no longer found on Interpol's wanted list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=View Red Notices |url=https://www.interpol.int/How-we-work/Notices/Red-Notices/View-Red-Notices |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=www.interpol.int |language=en}}</ref>

During a television interview on 10 March 2011, Geimer blamed the media, reporters, the court, and the judge for having caused "way more damage to me and my family than anything Roman Polanski has ever done", and opined that the judge was using her and Polanski for media exposure.<ref name="abcnews"/>

In January 2014, newly uncovered emails from 2008 by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, Larry P. Fidler, indicated that if Polanski returned to the United States for a hearing, the conduct of the judge who had originally presided over the case, Laurence A. Rittenband, might require that Polanski be freed. These emails were related to a 2008 documentary film by [[Marina Zenovich]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Cieply |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/movies/emails-raising-questions-about-the-polanski-case.html?_r=0|title=Emails Raising Questions About the Polanski Case |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020191918/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/movies/emails-raising-questions-about-the-polanski-case.html?_r=0 |archive-date=20 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=Beaumont-Thomas>{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Beaumont-Thomas |title=Conduct of judge in Roman Polanski statutory rape case questioned |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/17/judge-roman-polanski-rape-case-questioned |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=17 January 2014 |access-date=19 April 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420024554/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/17/judge-roman-polanski-rape-case-questioned |archive-date=20 April 2014}}</ref>

In late October 2014, Polanski was questioned by Polish prosecutors in Kraków.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29834442 |title=Roman Polanski freed in Poland after US extradition bid |publisher=BBC News |date=30 October 2014 |access-date=2 November 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925165433/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29834442 |archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> On 30 October 2015, Polish judge Dariusz Mazur denied a request by the United States to extradite Polanski, who has dual French–Polish citizenship, for a full trial, claiming that it would be "obviously unlawful".<ref>{{cite news |first1=Michal |last1=Kolanko |first2=Michael|last2=Cieply|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/world/europe/roman-polanski-poland-extradiction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 | title=Polish Court Turns Down U.S. Request for Roman Polanski's Extradition | newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 October 2015 | access-date=30 October 2015| name-list-style=amp | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205214340/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/world/europe/roman-polanski-poland-extradiction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 | archive-date=5 February 2016}}</ref> The Kraków prosecutor's office declined to challenge the court's ruling, agreeing that Polanski had served his punishment and did not need to face an American court ever again.<ref>{{cite news |first=Joanna|last=Berendt| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/roman-polanski-will-not-be-extradited-to-u-s-poland-says/?ref=topics | title=Roman Polanski Will Not Be Extradited to U.S., Poland Says | newspaper=The New York Times | date=27 November 2015 | access-date=30 December 2016 }}</ref>

Poland's national justice ministry appealed, arguing that sexual abuse of minors should be prosecuted regardless of the suspect's accomplishments or the length of time since the suspected crime took place.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/europe/roman-polanski-extradition-poland.html?_r=0 | title=Roman Polanski Extradition Request Rejected by Poland's Supreme Court | newspaper=The New York Times | date=6 December 2016 | access-date=30 December 2016 | first1=Joanna |last1=Berendt | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208121854/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/europe/roman-polanski-extradition-poland.html?_r=0 | archive-date=8 December 2016 }}</ref> In a December 2016 decision, the Supreme Court of Poland dismissed the government's appeal, holding that the prosecutor general had failed to prove misconduct or flagrant legal error on the part of the lower court.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sn.pl/aktualnosci/SitePages/Komunikaty_o_sprawach.aspx?ItemID=138&ListName=Komunikaty_o_sprawach | title=Sąd Najwyższy oddalił kasację Prokuratora Generalnego w sprawie dopuszczalności ekstradycji Romana Polańskiego IV KK 192/16 |language=pl | publisher=Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland | date=6 December 2016 | access-date=30 December 2016 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231170150/http://www.sn.pl/aktualnosci/SitePages/Komunikaty_o_sprawach.aspx?ItemID=138&ListName=Komunikaty_o_sprawach | archive-date=31 December 2016 }}</ref>

Preparations for ''An Officer and a Spy'' had been stalled by the extradition request.<ref name="Roman Polanski to Direct Dreyfus Affair Drama 'D'"/><ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Pulver|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/01/roman-polanski-jaccuse-dreyfus-affair-film-outrage|title=Social media outrage over Roman Polanski film J'Accuse|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=1 October 2018|access-date=4 November 2018|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212173322/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/01/roman-polanski-jaccuse-dreyfus-affair-film-outrage|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 3 May 2018, Polanski was removed from the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], with the decision referencing the case.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43994591|title=Oscars academy expels Cosby and Polanski|publisher=BBC News|location=London|date=3 May 2018|access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref>

Polanski has blamed [[Harvey Weinstein]] for the renewed focus on his sexual abuse case in the 2000s and claimed that Weinstein tried to brand him a "child rapist" to stop him from winning an Oscar in 2003.<ref name="AFP Weinstein's Fault" >{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/11/roman-polanski-media-making-me-a-monster-and-its-weinsteins-fault|title=Roman Polanski: media 'making me a monster' – and it's Weinstein's fault|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=11 December 2019|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

In March 2023, Geimer and her husband met with Polanski and his wife Seigner for a French magazine cover interview. Geimer states in the interview: "Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me. I didn't even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it. I was fine, I'm still fine. It was so unfair and so in opposition to justice&nbsp;... Everyone should know by now that Roman has served his sentence. Which was&nbsp;... long, if you want my opinion. Anyone who thinks that he deserves to be in prison is wrong. It isn't the case today and it wasn't the case yesterday."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/celebrities/2023/04/29/644ca848e2704e6e198b45d1.html|title=Roman Polanski and Samantha Geimer, the woman he abused 45 years ago, meet in Paris and are all smiles|date=29 April 2023|website=marca.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/roman-polanski-wife-interviews-rape-victim-samantha-geimer-defend-director-1235583690/ | title=Roman Polanski's Wife Interviews His Rape Victim, Who Says: 'I Was Fine. I'm Still Fine.' | date=14 April 2023 }}</ref>

====Documentary films====
In 2008, the documentary film by [[Marina Zenovich]], ''[[Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired]]'', was released in Europe and the United States where it won numerous awards.<ref name="nytimes8" /> The film focuses on the judge in the case and the possible reasons why he changed his mind. It includes interviews with people involved in the case, including the victim, Geimer, and the prosecutor, Roger Gunson. Geimer said that the judge "didn't care what happened" to her or Polanski, but "was orchestrating some little show",<ref name="documentary2" /> while Gunson added, "I'm not surprised that Polanski left under those circumstances,&nbsp;... It was going to be a real circus."<ref name="Romney2008-10-05"/><ref name="documentary2" />

Former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney David Wells, whose statements were the most damning evidence in the movie, and who said he advised the judge to imprison Polanski, admitted that he lied about those statements, and said that to the documentary makers to "play up" his own role.<ref name="Former DA admits he lied in 'Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired' film" /><ref name="Ex-prosecutor admits he lied about Polanski case" />

In December 2009, a California appellate court discussed the film's allegations as it denied Polanski's request to have the case dismissed. While saying it was "deeply concerned" by the allegations, and that the allegations were "in many cases supported by considerable evidence", it also found that "Even in light of our fundamental concern about the misconduct&nbsp;... flight was not Polanski's only option. It was not even his best option." It said dismissal of the case, which would erase Polanski's guilty plea, would not be an "appropriate result", and that he still had other legal options.<ref name="bostonglobe" /><ref name="cbsnews" />

In September 2011, the documentary film ''[[Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir]]'' had its world premiere in [[Zurich]], [[Switzerland]]. During an interview in the film, he offers his apology to Geimer: "She is a double victim: My victim, and a victim of the press."<ref name="CNN-apology" /> On this occasion, he collected the lifetime achievement award he was to have received at the time of his arrest two years earlier.<ref>{{cite news|first=Angelique|last=Chrisafis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/28/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival|title=Roman Polanski gets Zürich film festival award after two-year wait|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=27 February 2011|access-date=20 November 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917185248/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/28/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival |archive-date=17 September 2016 }}</ref>