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17-04-2023, 02:38 PM
David Millward
Mon, 17 April 2023 at 4:16 am SGT
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The 1977 attack on Ms Geimer was one of the biggest scandals to rock Hollywood in decades.
Polanski, then 43, had invited the teenager to carry out a photoshoot at Jack Nicholson’s house for Vogue Magazine, which he was guest editing.
He plied Ms Geimer with champagne and the popular party drug Quaalude, before pouncing on her.
Now 46 years after the attack, Ms Geimer played down its impact on her.
“Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me,” she said.
“I didn’t even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it. I was fine, I’m still fine. The fact that we’ve made this a big deal weighs on me terribly.”
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Polanski was arrested and served only 42 days in jail as a result of a plea deal in which the prosecution dropped charges of rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd act upon a child and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.
In 1978, the Polish-born Oscar-winning film director fled to France from the US hours before he was due to be sentenced.
Now 89, he remains a fugitive, carefully avoiding countries with which the US has an extradition treaty.
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Ms Geimer urged the US to drop the charges.
“People pretend to act in the name of justice, or because they support me, but it’s the antithesis of what I want and of all I say that I want,” she said.
“Everyone should know by now that Roman has served his sentence. Which was… long, if you want my opinion. From my side, nobody wanted him to go to jail, but he did and it was enough. He paid his debt to society. There, end of story.
“He did everything that was asked of him until the situation went berserk he had no other choice but to flee. 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.”
Ms Geimer said she only felt she was a victim when she was hounded by the press and had to face numerous court appearances.
“If someone had something to say about Roman, about any mistreatment, 1977 would have been a really good year to help me,” she added.
“Because with my family, we couldn’t even leave our house anymore! Everyone was attacking us.
“No one came to stand by my side and say: ‘Hey, you know what? I think she’s telling the truth because something similar happened to me.’
“It’s not like the story was private, it was in newspapers around the world!
“But no, no one, not one of the women who today claim to have had a problem with Roman took the trouble to contact me.”
Much more at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/never-big-dea...17876.html
Mon, 17 April 2023 at 4:16 am SGT
......
The 1977 attack on Ms Geimer was one of the biggest scandals to rock Hollywood in decades.
Polanski, then 43, had invited the teenager to carry out a photoshoot at Jack Nicholson’s house for Vogue Magazine, which he was guest editing.
He plied Ms Geimer with champagne and the popular party drug Quaalude, before pouncing on her.
Now 46 years after the attack, Ms Geimer played down its impact on her.
“Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me,” she said.
“I didn’t even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it. I was fine, I’m still fine. The fact that we’ve made this a big deal weighs on me terribly.”
......
Polanski was arrested and served only 42 days in jail as a result of a plea deal in which the prosecution dropped charges of rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd act upon a child and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.
In 1978, the Polish-born Oscar-winning film director fled to France from the US hours before he was due to be sentenced.
Now 89, he remains a fugitive, carefully avoiding countries with which the US has an extradition treaty.
......
Ms Geimer urged the US to drop the charges.
“People pretend to act in the name of justice, or because they support me, but it’s the antithesis of what I want and of all I say that I want,” she said.
“Everyone should know by now that Roman has served his sentence. Which was… long, if you want my opinion. From my side, nobody wanted him to go to jail, but he did and it was enough. He paid his debt to society. There, end of story.
“He did everything that was asked of him until the situation went berserk he had no other choice but to flee. 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.”
Ms Geimer said she only felt she was a victim when she was hounded by the press and had to face numerous court appearances.
“If someone had something to say about Roman, about any mistreatment, 1977 would have been a really good year to help me,” she added.
“Because with my family, we couldn’t even leave our house anymore! Everyone was attacking us.
“No one came to stand by my side and say: ‘Hey, you know what? I think she’s telling the truth because something similar happened to me.’
“It’s not like the story was private, it was in newspapers around the world!
“But no, no one, not one of the women who today claim to have had a problem with Roman took the trouble to contact me.”
Much more at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/never-big-dea...17876.html
