Roman Polanski

PARIS/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday. Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a U.S. extradition request. He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, and he was arrested in September in Switzerland on a U.S. warrant. The director's French lawyer, Herve Temime, told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published on ... Read Full Story

PARIS (Reuters) - Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday. Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a U.S. extradition request. He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. His lawyer, Herve Temime, told Le Figaro that Polanski had already been punished for the original offense after undergoing psychiatric tests during a 42-day period in detention in California in 1978. ... Read Full Story

Photo Agency The woman raped by Roman Polanski is pleading with an L.A. court to drop the charges against him so she can go back to her normal life, and stop agonizing over the hundreds of calls from the media she's received since the case resurfaced last month. Samantha Geimer wants the case against Roman Polanski dropped. (Bauer Griffin) Samantha Geimer , who was known as Samantha Gailey when the film director sexually assaulted her when she was just 13, has asked the Californian justice system to put a stop to the charges and all the hoopla over the case for the sake of ... Read Full Story

The lawyer for director Roman Polanski says his wife and two children are bearing the brunt of his Swiss imprisonment and that he has proposed "very significant" bail money, house arrest and other assurances to find freedom. Herve Temime tells the French daily Le Figaro that 76-year-old his client "will not accept extradition to the United States." U.S. authorities want Polanski to face justice in Los Angeles for having sex with a 13-year-old 32 years ago. A Swiss court official said this week that a bail decision was expected in 2 to 3 weeks. Temime said in an interview being published Friday that Polanski's ... Read Full Story

Bauer Griffin Roman Polanski is out of jail now, but only until he gets released from the hospital. The 76-year-old director, who faces being extradited to the US from France after fleeing to the country in 1978 when he was convicted of unlawful sex with a minor, was taken to a hospital from his Swiss jail to get necessary medical treatment. Roman Polanski has been hospitalized. (Bauer Griffin) His French lawyer Herve Temime said: "All I know is that he has been taken from prison for medical attention. I don't know where he is or when he will be returned to prison." A spokesperson ... Read Full Story