Polanski, acquitted of defamation in a trial with an actress who additionally accused him of rape

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has received a defamation go well with after accusing a British actress of mendacity after she claimed she had suffered rape by the hands of the French-Polish movie director.

A Paris court docket has acquitted Polanski of defamation fees introduced in opposition to him by Charlotte Lewis, who had additionally accused Polanski of sexually abusing her within the Nineteen Eighties, when she was 16 years previous.

Polanski had dismissed his accusations in an interview with the weekly ‘Paris Match’. “The essential high quality of liar is a superb reminiscence,” he mentioned within the interview revealed in 2019.

Roman Polanski can be tried in France for defaming a lady who denounced him

Lewis had claimed at a press convention in 2010 that the director had raped her in 1983. Nonetheless, she didn’t file a lawsuit in opposition to Polanski on the time and solely took the authorized route after his reference to a “lie” in that interview for ‘Paris Match’. Lewis had starred in a supporting function in Polanski’s movie ‘Pirates’, launched in 1986.

The Paris prosecutor’s workplace had already indicated upfront that the court docket ruling wouldn’t resolve on the veracity of the alleged rape or on the authenticity of the quotes attributed to Lewis. Relatively, it could be about whether or not Polanski had “taken his freedom of speech too far.”

In 1977, Polanski was arrested in the US on fees of raping a 13-year-old lady. He fled to Europe after it appeared a decide would reject a plea deal. Different accusations adopted, however Polanski maintains his innocence.

With data from Europa Press.

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