Director Roman Polanski was accused of childhood sexual assault in 1973 by Jane Doe and now faces an August 2025 trial date in the United States.
Roman Polanski received a trial date over sexual assault allegations of a minor in 1973. The controversial director must face an American judge on Aug. 4, 2025, for a 10-day trial, the plaintiff's lawyer, Gloria Allred told Fox News Digital. Allred announced during a press conference Tuesday that Polanski, 90, received the case from a process server at his home in Paris on behalf of the plaintiff, Jane Doe.
have waited a long time to file this case against Mr. Polanski, but I finally decided to file it in order to obtain justice and accountability,' Jane Doe said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Following Allred's press conference, Polanski's lawyer told Fox News Digital, 'Mr. Polanski strenuously denies the allegations made against him in the lawsuit and believes that the proper place to try this case is in the courts, and not in press conferences.
She claimed that Polanski gave her two shots of tequila before they went out. He drove them to Le Restaurant on La Cienega in Los Angeles, according to the complaint. Their table was not yet ready when they arrived, so they waited at the bar where Polanski proceeded to order more tequila for them both. Once seated at their table, 'Plaintiff began feeling dizzy from the tequila and went to the restroom where she was ill,' documents stated.
She woke up with the director next to her, documents stated. 'Defendant Polanski removed Plaintiff’s clothes and he proceeded to rape her causing her tremendous physical and emotional pain and suffering.' Allred told Fox News Digital, 'In 2017, I held a press conference with Jane Doe who alleged at that time that Mr. Polanski had sexually victimized her when she was a minor and that she was ‘infuriated’ that the victim, Samantha Geimer, in Mr.
Geimer was 13 years old at the time Polanski — who was in his 40s — was arrested and charged with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, providing controlled substances to a minor, and lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14. Following his guilty plea in 1977, Polanski fled the country and became a fugitive, first finding refuge in London and then settling in France. While Polanski has never stepped foot on U.S.
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