Polanski is also well known for having plead guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl named Samantha Jane Gailey in 1978. Polanski fled the U.S. in early 1978 to avoid sentencing for the rape charge, eventually moving to France, where he is a citizen, in order to avoid extradition to the U.S.
When Polanski won an Academy Award in 2003 for 'Best Director' for his film 'The Pianist', he did not attend the awards, since he would have been arrested upon returning to the U.S. —
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-173245/Polanskis-surprise-Oscar-win.html
Polanski's surprise Oscar win
In a stunning Oscar upset, Roman Polanski - who cannot set foot in the United States without going to jail - won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday night for his searing Holocaust drama "The Pianist."
Polanski, who fled the United States for France in 1978 as he was about to be sentenced to prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, won the Oscar in his third nomination as best director.
Polanski's award was accepted for him in his absence.
Polanski previously was nominated for directing the 1974 film "Chinatown" and the 1979 drama "Tess." He also received a screenwriting nomination for "Rosemary's Baby."
Many in the audience at the Kodak Theatre rose to their feet in a standing ovation, while others remained seated, including his "Chinatown" star, Jack Nicholson.
It was at Nicholson's home that Polanski later admitted to having sex with the underage girl after plying her with champagne and pills. A stone-faced Anjelica Huston, who was in another area of the house at the time, applauded.
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Here is Polanski, as quoted from an interview conducted in Paris in 1979, from the book 'Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions', by Martin Amis. At the time of this interview, Polanski had yet to realize that not everyone wants to have sex with adolescent girls, and that even if they did, it should not be considered acceptable to give in to that desire — perhaps Polanski would never realize that —
http://archive.is/FXGfF
https://www.amazon.com/Visiting-Mrs-Nabokov-Other-Excursions/dp/0679757937
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"If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!"
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Here is Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer (formerly Samantha Gailey), in an interview on the BBC, where she explains that having to live through the grand jury testimony regarding the rape, was worse than the rape itself. This is not too surprising, given that she saw doing a photo-shoot with Polanski as an opportunity, since he was a successful director, and she wanted to become an actress, and that Polanski drugged her to help overcome her resistance — not to mention the tendency of people to defend Polanski, and treat her as a liar. As she said when questioned about this: "Well, right, the rape was ten minutes, the grand jury testimony was all day..." —
Here is Samantha Geimer's book about this experience —
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Life-Shadow-Roman-Polanski/dp/1476716846
Here is a still image showing Meryl Streep standing to applaud Roman Polanski's award for 'Best Director' in 2003, at the 75th Academy Awards, followed by the video of the Academy Awards during that announcement (the still image is at 1:11 in the video). Recall that Polanski did not attend the awards to avoid being arrested —
Here is Meryl Streep speaking at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards, in accepting their 'Cecil B. DeMille 2017' award, where she denounces an unnamed person for supposedly mocking a handicapped person. Of course, everyone knows the person Meryl is denouncing is Donald Trump, since this story has been repeated in the media over and over again — despite having been repeatedly shown to have been wildly exaggerated (if not completely false) —
At 3:58 in the video above, Meryl Streep made this especially ironic statement —
"... when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose ..."That sounds exactly like what Roman Polanski did to Samantha Geimer, but in a way that is far worse than mere mockery, and yet Meryl Streep has celebrated Polanski. Honest observers are now left to wonder, 'is Meryl lying, or is she just stupid?'
Meryl Streep made some challenging statements in her 2017 Golden Globe acceptance speech — will she be able to live up to any of them?
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