Roman Polanski Wants 'Due Process'
The Academy, in a move that comes approximately 41 years too late, expelled the director; he now says he’ll appeal the ruling.
by Megan Garber
May 03, 2018
4 minutes
Updated on May 4, 2018
In March of 1977, Roman Polanski was arrested in Los Angeles for charges emerging from a sexual encounter he had had with Samantha Gailey, then 13 years old: The 43-year-old Polanski, she said, had given her champagne and a quaalude, and then had raped her. Polanski, in response to the charges, eventually struck a deal: He pled guilty to a blanket count of unlawful sex with a minor. In exchange, he had hoped, he would move on with his life in Hollywood.
Polanski, since then, has existed in a kind of limbo: of social status, of legality, of celebrity, of morality. And also of geography:
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