Film director Roman Polanski has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit related to the alleged sexual assault of a minor
reported. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June 2023, and was scheduled to go to trial in August 2025. on Tuesday that the case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed.”In the suit, the woman identified as Jane Doe claimed that she met Polanski at a party in 1973 when she was a minor.
“Plaintiff remembers waking up in Defendant’s bed with him lying in the bed next to her,” the lawsuit stated. “He told her that he wanted to have sex with her. Plaintiff, though groggy, told Defendant ‘No.’ She told him, ‘Please don’t do this.’” during a press conference in Los Angeles that Polanski “sexually victimized” her when she was 16-years-old. The woman said she told a friend about what happened “the day after the assault” but didn’t tell her parents.
Robin M. said that she decided to come forward when she learned that Samantha Geimer, who Polanski admitted to the statutory rape of when she was 13, planned to ask a Los Angeles Supreme Court Judge to resolve the criminal pursuit once and for all against Polanski. “This infuriated me,” Robin M. said in a statement. “I am speaking out now so that Samantha and the world will know that she is not the only minor Roman Polanski had victimized.
In a separate statement submitted at the time of the original filing, Polanski’s attorney said that, “Mr. Polanski strenuously denies the allegations in the lawsuit and believes that the proper place to try this case is in the courts.”Trump Was Enraged by Funeral Cost for 'F--king Mexican' U.S. Soldier: Reportseveral sexual assault and rape allegations. He has denied the claims.
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