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Sued for defamation by actress Charlotte Lewis, who accuses him of having raped her in 1983, the filmmaker retaliates. A witness for the prosecution would have retracted.
Par Nicolas Bastuck
Director Roman Polanski and actress Charlotte Lewis in Cannes, May 8, 1986, before the screening of the film “Pirates”.© AFP ARCHIVES
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En 2016 in Granbury (State of Texas), Karen Smith, 53, former model of the British agency Bookings, filed a witness certificate before a notary. “I met Roman Polanski on June 25, 1983 at the Apocalypse [elle a alors 20 ans], a prominent club in Paris; I had no idea who he was and we became great friends…” she tells the sworn officer. In the fumes of the parties in which he drags him, the filmmaker talks to him at length about Pirates, the film that has obsessed him for ten years, and for which he has finally just found a producer. Inexhaustible on this pharaonic project (40 million dollars) and with great spectacle (majestic ship, wonderful costumes…), Roman Polanski reviews his characters. He dwells on that of Dolores, young…
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