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Roman Polanski acquitted of defamation by French court
British actor Charlotte Lewis had claimed she was made the victim of a ‘smear campaign’ after she accused the director of raping her when she was a teenager
A French court on Tuesday acquitted French-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski of defaming British actor Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. Polanski is wanted in the United States over the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in 1977 and faces several other accusations of sexual assault dating back decades and past the statute of limitations – all claims he has rejected. According to Paris Match, he pulled out a copy of a 1999 article in now-defunct British tabloid newspaper News of the World, and quoted Lewis as saying in it: “I wanted to be his lover.”
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