French Paper: French Woman Claims Rape by Polanski in 1975

ELAINE GANLEY / The Associated Press Nov 8, 2019 The filmmaker pleaded guilty in the U.S. in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old, then fled to Europe the following year. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Film Academy Expels Cosby and Polanski

LINDSEY BAHR / The Associated Press May 3, 2018 The decision is the first major one since the organization implemented revised standards of conduct for its members after the expulsion of Harvey Weinstein in October. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Woody Allen Keeps Telling Us Who He Is. Women Should Listen.

Kali Holloway / AlterNet Oct 25, 2017 Someone should invent a term for that moment when you realize an artist you love is a terrible person. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Why Some of Us Hesitated to Say #MeToo

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Oct 20, 2017 To speak out on the issue of male power abuse, many women must leap into a personal reservoir of pain. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Sex, Drugs and Roman Polanski

David Coleman / Truthdig Jul 13, 2010 The 34-year-old lens through which we view Roman Polanski’s crime is clouded because society’s viewpoint about his “sex crime” has swung in the opposite direction from that of a drug crime.Should a crime be viewed through a lens adjusted to the era during which the crime was committed? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Polanski and Unmitigated Gall

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 13, 2010 For Roman Polanski, the long, unspeakable nightmare of being confined to his three-story chalet in Gstaad, the luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, is finally over. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Swiss Set Polanski Free

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2010 Roman Polanski is a lucky man -- and as of Monday, he's also a free man after a Swiss judge decided that the justification for Polanski's extradition to the U.S. was flawed. So, the "freedom-restricting measures against him have been revoked." Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

British Actress: ‘I Am Also a Victim of Roman Polanski’

Staff / Truthdig May 15, 2010 Claiming that Roman Polanski's legal team is wrongly spinning the story of his sexual abuse of a minor over three decades ago "as an isolated incident," British actress Charlotte Lewis piped up on Friday to declare that the director had "forced himself" upon her when she was 16 years old. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Polanski Speaks

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2010 Declaring that he only wants "to be treated fairly like everyone else," auteur-in-exile Roman Polanski spoke out on his own behalf on Sunday via his ally Bernard-Henri Lévy's website, claiming that there are "no grounds" for his extradition to the U.S. to face charges related to his decades-old sexual assault case. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Swiss Court Accepts Polanski’s $4.5M Bail Request

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2009 Will Roman Polanski spend the holidays at his mountain chalet in Gstaad? That could well be the case after Polanski's latest bail offer, this time to the tune of $45 million, was accepted by a Swiss court Wednesday, although the 76-year-old director (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Emma Thompson, Petition Tourist?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2009 British actor Emma Thompson has drawn the ire of Roman Polanski's supporters by removing her name from a pro-Polanski petition she'd signed following the Polish filmmaker's September arrest in Switzerland. On Tuesday writer-filmmaker Yann Moix archly accused Thompson of "petition tourism." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Victim

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