Roman Polanski A lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a minor more than 50 years ago has been settled.
After reaching the settlement, the Oscar-winning director will no longer have to face a 10-day trial in the US.
Polanski’s representative told Fox News Digital, “The case settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties over the summer and has now been formally dismissed.”
Gloria Allred, who represented anonymous accuser Jane Doe in the lawsuit, provided a similar statement to Fox News Digital.
“Both parties have agreed to settle the claims on the basis of mutual satisfaction,” he said.
According to the settled civil lawsuit, Jane Doe allegedly met Polanski at a party in 1973 when she was a minor.
She claimed that he invited her to dinner despite knowing that she was underage. Doe alleged in the lawsuit that she met Polanski at his home in Benedict Canyon on the night they were having dinner.
According to the complaint, he gave them tequila shots before they went to Le Restaurant in La Cienega in Los Angeles.
When they arrived their table was not yet ready, so they waited at the bar, where Polanski proceeded to order more tequila for both of them.
Once seated at her desk, “Plaintiff began feeling dizzy from the tequila and went to the restroom where she was ill,” the documents state.
She went out for fresh air, and Polanski followed her before “taking her back to his house”.
In the complaint, Doe does not remember “how she got to the defendant’s house by car,” but that she passed out in Polanski’s bed.
The documents say she woke up with the director next to her.
“Defendant Polanski removed Plaintiff’s clothing, and he began to rape her, causing her extreme physical and emotional pain and suffering.”
In 1977, Polanski fled the country after pleading guilty to having unlawful sexual relations with a minor, Samantha Geimer, in a separate case.
The ‘Chinatown’ director reunited with Geimer last year.
Geimer was 13 at the time. Polanski, who was in his 40s, was arrested and charged with rape, mutilation, sodomy, furnishing a controlled substance to a minor and under the age of 14. Was accused of committing obscene and lascivious acts with a child.
After pleading guilty in 1977, Polanski fled and became a fugitive, seeking refuge first in London and then settling in France.
Although Polanski has never set foot on American soil or any country that would extradite him to the United States, he has still made films and won an Academy Award for Best Director in 2002 for “The Pianist.”
In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel Polanski and later defended its decision by saying that he was given a fair chance. Opportunity to challenge the Academy’s decision,
Polanski sued the Academy the following year on the grounds that the group had failed to follow its procedures when it voted to expel him.
He was expelled along with Bill Cosby for violating the organization’s standards of conduct.
In its response, the Academy said the board considered the voluminous material submitted by Polanski on appeal, including more than 400 pages of exhibits and a detailed memorandum from his attorney.
Polanski also recorded a videotaped statement directly addressing the Board of Governors.
