Article: On screen in court, the X-rated life story of Roman Polanski; Fugitive director sues via video link over claim that he tried to seduce Swedish beauty after wife's murder.

Byline: BILL MOULAND

HE is more used to being behind the camera lens than in front of it. But yesterday film director Roman Polanski appeared on a TV screen to relive his sordid past.

There was the brutal murder of his beautiful, eight-and-ahalfmonths pregnant wife Sharon Tate in 1969.

His infidelity, his penchant for 'casual sex', often with teenagers, his three-inabed sessions.

And his flight from American justice in 1977 after admitting having sex with a girl of 13.

All was laid bare at the High Court in London, where 71-year-old Polanski is suing the glossy magazine Vanity Fair for libel after it printed a 'quite ...

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