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Article: Roman Polanski's American Dream.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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NEW YORK: What purpose is Switzerland serving by jailing the renowned Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski on a 30-year-old warrant? Arrested in 1977 for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles, Polanski pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of having unlawful sex with a minor. In the belief that his judge, the late Laurence J. Rittenband, would renege on his promise to let Polanski go free after serving 42 days in a California prison, the director fled the United States in 1978 before his final sentence was announced.
Since then, the victim of Polanski's sex crime, Samantha Geimer, publicly forgave him, and expressed her wish for the charges to ...