Roman Polanski No Longer Going on Trial in L.A. Over Alleged 1973 Rape of Minor
variety.comEllise Shafer Roman Polanski will no longer go on trial in Los Angeles next year over the alleged rape of a minor in 1973, French news agency AFP reports.
The director’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, told the AFP on Tuesday that the case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed.” Polanski was set to face trial in August 2025.
Gloria Allred, the lawyer of the anonymous plaintiff, also confirmed to the AFP that “a settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction.” The lawsuit, filed in June 2023, alleged that Polanski raped the Jane Doe in 1973 when she was underage at his Benedict Canyon home.
According to the suit, the plaintiff met Polanski at a party months earlier and he had invited her to dinner, gave her shots of tequila and drove her to his house, where she passed out on his bed. “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.
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