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Roman Polanski Acquitted in French Defamation Trial
A French court has acquitted filmmaker Roman Polanski of defamation charges brought by British actor Charlotte Lewis.
A French court has acquitted filmmaker Roman Polanski of defamation charges brought by British actor Charlotte Lewis, who’d claimed that he raped her when she was a child, the New York Times has reported. Lewis, now 56, had accused the now 90-year-old filmmaker of raping her when she was 16, during a casting session at his Paris home. Instead, it was dealing with a 2019 interview with French magazine Paris Match in which Polanski had dismissed Lewis’ accusation of being an “odious lie.” The court ruled on whether Polanski had overstepped the bounds of free speech by dismissing her account of the alleged events.
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