Charlotte Lewis, a British actress who was in Polanski’s movie Pirates in 1986 (she was also the girl from The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy if that rings a bell), claims that when she was 16, Polanksi sexually assaulted her. She didn’t provide any proof in her public statement, but she did give some kind of evidence to police. An investigation hasn’t begun.
In her public statement, Lewis said:
“[Polanski] sexually abused me in the worst possible way when I was just 16. He knew [how old I was] when he met me and forced himself upon me in his apartment in Paris. He took advantage of me and I have lived with the effects of his behavior ever since it occurred. I’ve traveled to the U.S. at my own expense to make sure that justice is finally done and that Mr. Polanski gets what he deserves. All I want is justice.”
Polanski hasn’t directly responded to these allegations, but one of his lawyers did say that “everything that has been said is a web of lies.”
Ok, now let’s look at some numbers. Charlotte Lewis was born in 1967, which means she would be 16 in 1983, three years before the Polanski film was released. Does that seem weird to anyone else? Could the girl not get out of a contract, or was there some kind of blackmail? You think she’s even telling the truth? I don’t know, I’m just trying to start conversation.
The movie took several years to complete. The time line is perfectly plausible. Do you think the woman and her attorney would make these charges if they couldn’t even defend the timing of the events? Also do you think the moment filming is completed the movie then immediately shows in the theater? Sometimes it can easily take more than a year before editing is completed and the time of year comes around when the studio wants the film to be released. It was a movie about pirates. It was a summer movie, which is why they waited till July to release it in theaters.
“I don’t know, I’m just trying to start conversation.”
No you don’t know. Lets converse about some starlets herpes infection, or some assholes sex addiction, not an alibi for Polanski and his perversions.
i don’t think she meant that she wasn’t filming 3 years before it was released, i thinks he meant ifit had happened 3 years before, why didn’t she drop out of the movie?
emily- because at 16, she was probably too ashamed to come forward with what happened (because that happens to a lot of victims of abuse and probably in a binding contract, as well.
probably took 3 years to complete the film.
You actually have your facts wrong. She did say 1983. Whether it is true or not, this man needs to go down.
wow capitalizing on a fallen legend! cool.
yeah, i know. you know what is also cool? raping and molesting children and women.
why didn’t she come out earlier when the charges against him came out the first time. Sure, it may have happened but it seems like a desperate attempt to jumpstart her “career”
I can’t say who tell the thruth or not…
But for the coming out, I don’t know, maybe she was piss off that people think he was still a good guy after all, the celebrities being by his side, etc…
If someone would rape me, I don’t think I will tell it to anyone beside my personnal friends, I would be really mad if people would became see him as a matyr or something.
Maybe he should check out the dancing 7 year olds that are making the rounds! I bet there’s some mother’s that would be glad to let a famous director boff her child for a few bucks and a shot at fame.
touché
Of course he denies everything, all of them deny. WOODY ALLEN, STEVEN SEAGAL and the list could go on forever. As always, the victims are the guilty ones. Either are considered crazy or gold diggers (the media takes good care to portray them so). This filthy scum will never pay for what he did. Til then u can keep kissing his “innocent” ass. What if ur daughter or sister was in CHARLOTTE LEWIS or SAMANTHA GEIMER’s place, u idiots?
Even if she was filming the movie after, that doesn’t mean anything. The singer Nathalie Simard get abused by her producer/agent since she was a child and still worked with him for several years.
If Polanski can rape a 13 years old girl one time, this is highly probable that he did it with other girls too…
Iono… she could be coming forward after all this time (bravo to her, if that is the case) but … Gloria Allred is her attorney.
A rather poor choice given Ms. Allred’s other fine, upstanding and deeply moral clientele recently.