Roman Polanski: lawsuit alleging director raped teenager in 1973 settled and dismissed | Roman Polanski | The Guardian
Civil suit that claimed the now 91-year-old sexually assaulted a 16-year-old in Los Angeles in 1973 has been settled to ‘mutual satisfaction’ of both parties
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Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning film director who fled the US decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old, will no longer face trial over an alleged sexual assault of another minor after reaching a settlement.
The latest case against the now 91-year-old director, which concerned an alleged sexual attack in 1973, had been due in civil court in Los Angeles next August.
The civil suit, filed last year, claimed Polanski took a then-teenager – named anonymously in filings as Jane Doe – to dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles in 1973.
The lawsuit alleged that he gave her tequila, and when she began to feel dizzy, drove her to his home, where she alleged he sexually assaulted her.
“She told him: ‘Please don’t do this,’” the plaintiff’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, told reporters in March, saying the alleged assault caused the plaintiff “tremendous physical, emotional pain and suffering”.
But the case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed,” Polanski’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
Allred confirmed this to the Guardian, saying a settlement of claims was agreed “to their mutual satisfaction”.
The lawsuit, which sought unspecified damages, was filed in June 2023, just before the expiration of a California law that allowed for an extended window for claims against the alleged perpetrators of sexual crimes.
Court papers filed in California in July said a “conditional” accord had been reached.
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