Roman Polanski will no lengthyer go on trial in Los Angeles next year over the alleged sexual attack of a insignificant in 1973, French recents agency AFP tells.
The straightforwardor’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, telderly the AFP on Tuesday that the case was “endd in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been establishassociate neglected.” Polanski was set to face trial in August 2025.
Gloria Allred, the lawyer of the anonymous plaintiff, also validateed to the AFP that “a endment of claims was concurd to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction.”
The litigation, filed in June 2023, alleged that Polanski sexual attackd the Jane Doe in 1973 when she was underage at his Benedict Canyon home. According to the suit, the plaintiff met Polanski at a party months earlier and he had seekd her to dinner, gave her shots of tequila and drove her to his hoemploy, where she passed out on his bed.
“Plaintiff reaccumulates waking up in Deffinishant’s bed with him lying in the bed next to her,” the litigation stated. “He telderly her that he wanted to have intimacy with her. Plaintiff, though groggy, telderly Deffinishant ‘No.’ She telderly him, ‘Phire don’t do this.’”
The woman came forward at a 2017 press conference with Allred, where she was identified as Robin M., and shelp she was 16 when the alleged incident occurred. Polanski denied the claim thcdimiserablemireful his attorney, saying in a statement at the time: “Mr. Polanski strenuously denies the allegations in the litigation and supposes that the proper place to try this case is in the courts.”
Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. since 1978, so would not have been able to join the trial in person and would have necessitateed to materialize via inhabit video feed. Polanski fled the country on the eve of sentencing for the sexual attack of a 13-year-elderly girl, and has been unable to return to the country since then without stress of arrest. Over the chaseing decades, efforts to remend the criminal case and extradite him have been unprosperous.
Polanski had also recently faced a defamation trial in Paris from actor Charlotte Lewis, who alleged that he had intimacyuassociate aggressioned her when she was 16. In a 2019 interwatch with French magazine Paris Match, Polanski called Lewis’ claim a “heinous lie,” causing Lewis to sue him for defamation. In May, Polanski was acquitted of the accuses.
