Me again ;o) Just saw this in an article re. Polanski:
Polanski's lawyers have begun negotiating with Los Angeles prosecutors to allow the now-64-year-old director back into the States without serving jail time.
Geimer [the girl he statutorily raped], who lives with her family in Hawaii, says it's fine with her. "I really wish this would be over, that he would reach agreement with the courts, no longer be a fugitive."
She also tells Inside Edition that she wouldn't call the episode rape, but the sex was not consensual. "I perceived it as he made me have sex with him," she says. "The word 'rape' always brings to mind for me a level of...violence that wasn't there."
Also, he apparently started a relationship with then 15yr old Natassja Kinski as soon as he feld the country.
Although it's still incredibly tasteless, I am at least relieved that the victim didn't sit, upset in her living room, watching as Polanski was given a standing ovation.
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Hmm, interesting
Date: 2003-03-24 03:32 am (UTC)Polanski's lawyers have begun negotiating with Los Angeles prosecutors to allow the now-64-year-old director back into the States without serving jail time.
Geimer [the girl he statutorily raped], who lives with her family in Hawaii, says it's fine with her. "I really wish this would be over, that he would reach agreement with the courts, no longer be a fugitive."
She also tells Inside Edition that she wouldn't call the episode rape, but the sex was not consensual. "I perceived it as he made me have sex with him," she says. "The word 'rape' always brings to mind for me a level of...violence that wasn't there."
Also, he apparently started a relationship with then 15yr old Natassja Kinski as soon as he feld the country.
Although it's still incredibly tasteless, I am at least relieved that the victim didn't sit, upset in her living room, watching as Polanski was given a standing ovation.
Really going now,
Helen