Film honestor Roman Polanski, 91, no lengthyer faces a trial over an alleged intimacyual aggression on a insignificant in 1973 after achieveing a finishment, novels agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) increateed citing his U.S. lawyer.
The honestor (The Pianist, The Palace) fled the U.S. decades ago after accomprehendledgeting to the statutory sexual battery of a 13-year-elderly in a plea barachieve in 1977. After serving 42 days in jail, he left the country when it ecombineed a appraise was repondering his free.
The procrastinateedst case aachievest Polanksi had been filed last year and was due in a civil court in Los Angeles in August 2025 but has been retreatn amid the finishment, the AFP increate elucidateed. The case was “finishd in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been createassociate disconsidered,” it quoted the attorney as saying.
Gloria Allred, the plaintiff’s lawyer, validateed to the AFP that “a finishment of claims was concurd to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction.”
The civil legal case, filed by an unidentified plaintiff in Los Angeles Superior Court and seeking unspecified harms, accparticipated Polanski of raping a insignificant in 1973 after giving her liquor. It was filed fair before the expiration of a California law that helped for an extfinished triumphdow for claims aachievest the alleged offfinishers of intimacyual crimes.
Polanski, a best honestor Oscar triumphner for The Pianist (2002), has always denied wrongdoing.
