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Roman Polanski Wins Charlotte Lewis Defamation Case After Paris Court Dismisses Charges
Roman Polanski Wins Charlotte Lewis Defamation Case After Paris Court Dismisses Charges
A French court has dismissed charges against French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski that he defamed UK actor Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of sexually assaulting her as a teenager. The court did not pass judgement on Lewis’s accusation of sexual assault, but rather whether Polanski had slandered the actor in his Paris Match interview, and misused his right to freedom of expression. Polanski, who was not present at the hearing, faces charges for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in U.S. and has also been subject to string of sexual assault allegations by other women, which he denies.
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