Polanski Victim Wants Case Dropped
There's just something odd about the whole case surrounding director Roman Polanski.
Polanski was drugging and raping 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a modeling shoot back in 1977 and was then indicted on six felony counts to which he plead guilty but later fled the country the night before he was scheduled to be sentenced.
Years later in 1988, Geimer sued Polanski for $500,000. Money helps, but it doesn't heal emotional scars. But does time heal all wounds?
It seems that Geimer wants to drop the lawsuit against Polanski and wants it dropped now!
In fact, her attorney Lawrence Silver is asking a California appeals court to dismiss the criminal case against Polanski. For reals!
According to Silver, Geimer is suffering due to all the recent media attention, claiming she's received almost 500 calls seeking comment since Polanski's arrest last month.
Silver adds that Geimer is being stalked by journalists from different international news outlets and has even received interview requests from big shots like Oprah Winfrey! She turned down Oprah?
The suit claims that "The pursuit has caused her to have health-related issues. The pursuit has caused her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job." Adding at the end, "Leave her alone."
It's a tough one. We understand Geimer doesn't want to be in the spotlight and we're sure the media hounding her isn't helping any, but what message does it send to release a rapist without any punishment?
What do U think? Should Polanski be set free or brought back to the US to face sentencing?
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The girl was 13 going on 25–not a virgin, very seductive and pretty much consensual, if you can call it that. Still statutory but Polanski served about 90 days in prison and the girl has publicly forgiven him on more than one occasion.
I am conflicted about this for several reasons. First I feel extremely bad for this women that is a victim of a serious crime and is having to relive it daily. Honestly this is the point where the media in the US and around the world should have some respect and dignity for a victim of a crime. If she wants to say something I am sure in this modern day and age it would take her less then 5 minutes to get in touch with the news people she so desired. So Honestly I feel for her if she loses her job and so forth no one should be a victim of a Hannis crime and go through that. So I can see her point of asking for it to be dropped.
On the other hand the state does have laws that need to be up held. So fry his ass. But if we as a society go through all of this bring him back and he only does like a year or two then what is the point of all of this trouble and disrespect of the victim for. It would seem pointless to me unless your going to throw the book at him.
Re: NothingBetter2do – Back in the day that's just how it was. They could also parade your sexual history all over the stand and news.
re: gmstarshine #101 Oh….. you knew her? She was a 13 year old whore? Because children are born whores, you know, so I feel better now. She was just born that way, according to you since you knew her. See, before, I thought that maybe her guardians exploited her, but now, thanks to you, I understand that she was just a whore in her soul. Guardians be damned, haha! And all the adults who could have, should have (Angelica, GOD WHAT WERE YOU THINKING; MOTHER, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, POLANSKI; WHAT WERE YOU THINKING) done ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS, just blamed it on the whoring child. So Hollywood. So sickening.
I'd like to volunteer to let Mr. Polanski serve out his sentence here, with me, at my home. Then he wouldn't have to go through the horror of being in an actual prison. I would cook him his meals, give him a nice comfy bed to sleep in, and wait on him hand and foot. And EVERY night, just before it's bed time, I would sodomize him just like he did to that 13 year old girl. No thanks needed, that's just the kind of guy I am!
It isn't about the victim anymore, he RAN away from the State of CA's sentencing of him. -Should've manned-up to it THEN.
Of COURSE - send him to the US! He need's his consequences!
Polanski never paid the orginal monies that a judge ruled must be paid to Samantha-
polanski=scum.
Just because she is unhappy with the news doesn't mean the law should not do everything in it's power to prevent this from happening to his next potential victim. Who says he won't try this again? There are other people to protect. This is the price of fame. If parents were more inclined to protect their children instead of trying to become famous (yeah, I'm talking to you, Lohans), more children would have normal, healthy lives, and they would not be exposed to Hollywood types with no moral compass who are told everything they do is ok b/c they are famous. Why can't parents just let kids be kids instead of extensions of their own egos? Maybe she should take issue with her Mom instead of trying to let Polanski off the hook. He is, and always be, a coward pedophile. Anyone who thinks less than that - would yo let him alone with YOUR daughter?
it does not matter if she wants it dropped
duh
he FLED THE UNITED STATES after being guilty.
again
HE FLED THE USA.!
the courts to do give a rats ass about her, he has committed a crime, fled, so he should now pay the price
Re: TheRussianOne – Love your refuting unintelligent comment after unintelligent comment. PLEASE continue to educate these people who clearly don't get the broad picture here!!!!!
By the way, let's not forget that Polanski started dating Natasha Kinski when she was FIFTEEN and he was FOURTY THREE!!!! Don't you people get it, who stick up for him? This guy is SICK! I wonder how he would like for his DAUGHTER to have the same experience he bestowed upon his victim. He is a RAPIST PEDOPHILE. If you think a three month sentence covers that crime, then I don't know what to say.
Re: dangertwinkie – That was in HOLLYWOOD, where nobody expects a normal response to anything. Although my father in law was a victim of the Holocaust and is alive today despite his whole family being killed, he did not support or see Polanski's movie and neither did i. It is negated by the kind of human being he is, which is no better than the scum he made the movie about. He is morally reprehensible, and so were the people who committed the very atrocities that he made the Piano about. He is a hypocrite of the highest form, and every Jewish person I know thinks he is disgusting, including my father-in-law. the last thing any Jewish person needs is a representative like a Polanski or a Madoff going against every tenant of Jewish law. And if you are going to Jew bash in response, don't bother- the bait won't be taken.
It is not a case of black and white. The young lady was 8 years old when she first had sex with a boy (of same age!!!) They (Polanski and her) were hanging out for their photo shoot, and they were NOT alone in the house when the sad event took place, Anjelica Houston where there - so was there signs of violence rape??!! maybe NOT!!!
This case is not all black and white. The young lady was 8 years old when she first had sex (with a boy of same age). They were hanging out for days for the photo shoot. They were not alone in the house when the sad event took place (Anjelica Houston was there!!!) the police at the time did not allow her to testify that there were no signs of violence. Think about that!!!
A 13 years old going ALONE to a photo shoot?? Where the hell was he MOTHER???
FUCK NO his sorry ass should not be allowed to run and get away with it, just because his victim was payed of.
So if you have enough money to skip town and hide out for 30 years, you can get away with just about anything is the message it will send to the public.
This case has gone past the Polanski's victim.. his ass should rot for every child that has been hurt !
Although I strongly believed that the case should NOT be dropped, his victim stated a very long time ago that she wanted it to be. This happened more than thirty years ago, maybe she hasn't completely healed from it, but she thought this was all done with, the whole media sensation surrounding her. Now what, she's forced to bring it all back up and talk about it? Maybe she was finally putting it behind her, now she's being bothered by every single journalist or celebrity who has their own talk show. So yea, she turned down Oprah, I would too if I was in her situation.
its time for him to get some "street justice" in lock up…..
he should be released! This happened 30 yr ago, the victim does not want him in prison AND our vision of what is pedophilia has changed over the yr! To have sex with a underaged is not the same today as it was 30 yr ago, in the 70's for god's sake!
Stop with all the phony outrage on behalf of people you know fuck all about.it is disgusting and phony as botox
Re: lily on crack – WHOSE vision of pediphelia has changed over the years? Fucking a child is fucking a child!!! Lily, I think you really ARE on crack, because ANYONE who KNOWS a 13 year old CHILD would never try to FUCK them! So WHAT if it happened 30 years ago! There should be a time limit on a CRIME? By your account, "hey, so what if JFK or MLK Jr. or for that matter, Lincoln were shot…it was just so durn LAWNG ago, dang it! who cares?" WOW. What if someone raped your Mom, or your sister, or your best friend, or your daughter. For that matter, what if someone ass-raped your little brother, or your DAD…would 30 years be enough for you to say, "OK…were done now…" I cringe….
gas him, there are plenty more hollywood directors to take his place. he's a waste of space. how many other victims of his are out there? SPEAK UP!!! Geimer is setting an AWFUL precedent for other victims of rape. Both parties in this case are total losers.
all she has to do is recant her story. she made it all up. never happened. then his lawyers will say that he plead it out to avoid a trial. and, if you look at the original plea deal, where he agreed to enter a "facility" for 42 days (which he did), the DA's office did not seem, at the time, to see a serious crime here. he served his 42 days and if the original trial judge would have kept his nose out of it, he would have been done. but, he decided, after the fact, to change the deal, AFTER he had a guilty plea. that, no mater what the case is, is wrong. think for a second. one of YOU gets in a jam and ends up in court. your lawyer works out a plea deal. you and the DA agree, and it is entered in court. you serve your "time", and after, the judge decides he "doesn't like" you, and wants to sentence you to something else. not saying it was right for him to run. should have appealed the judges decision. but it was not right what they tried to do to him.
No. This woman can't assess the situation clearly-maybe because she was raped as a child. . .this man is preposterous.
Give Polanski the chair!
Re: bite me – In Sept 09, Polanski did an interview with an Esquire journalsit. He "admitted he was responsible for his own actions which prompted him to flee the US." According to Polanski, "There was no plot against me. There was no set up. It was ALL MY FAULT." he goes on to say, "Sex is not a past time. It is a FORCE, it's a drive. It changes your way of thinking…" He says further, "There's a different justice for people who are public figures than for those who are not." So. if he admits responsibility for his behavior and does not think he should be outside the law, why would YOU think he should be? Now you know, by his own words, that they did not try to "DO ANYTHING TO HIM." He did it to himself. And raped a kid (don't forget that….). Oh, and raped her in the ass….but keep defending the pedophile.
It is a good thing SHE can't drop it. If she did, everyone would be pissed at her! Then she would really be getting harrased.
Money talks, she was paid off.
he has already paid for his crime. he should be allowed to return to the us.
was she raped or looking for fun like a lot of teenage girls do?
Re: Rican31 –
i totally agree with you… technically he did his time … both parties agreed to a punishment… he fled cause the judge did not live up to his end of the deal… was it a fair deal for the victim???… HELL NO… but never the less that's what they agreed on back in the 70's… i dont blame him for running… do i think he should have his balls cut off?????… HELL YES… he was already publicly involve with a 15 yr old in France and no one in France said anything… just goes to show everyone how different our culture are… regardless… i still dont think he belongs in jail… as far as she's concern… she seems to have gotten over it… and im sure financially…. she's been taking of… by whom you think????
She wasn't exactly raped. Her mother brought her there and served her up to him with the hopes he would then make her a movie star. It was statutory. That's was the sentence was only 43 days. The poor girl was as much a victim of her own mother as she was Polanski. It was the '60s and people behaved badly. He was a jerk and a pig but not exactly a "rapist" in the way we think of rapists today.
Okay. What he did was obviously wrong. What she and her mother did was also wrong. Her age was misrepresented to him. This wasn't her first time. Her mother left her alone with him, representing her as being older. He served the initial agreed upon sentence. Things got wacky. Case was corrupt from the start. He shouldn't have run. If he's charged with anything now it should be for running. however, I think just drop it.
Re: yovovi – Well it is no wonder Woody Allen (famed, beloved American Hollywood Icon) should support it, he married the child he raised
(and was screwing her before that) he is worse than Polanski, and all he got was reward and applause for his predictable unchanging film making!
he should be brought back and punished for what he did to her. It would be nice if the stupid media would leave her alone. Don't they care how stressful it is on her and interfering with her life. She shouldn't have to deal with this crap. The woman could lose her job over all this, but her employer should understand that the dumb media is just that, dumb and stupid. Go after Polanski, not her!
Re: StickyBunz – Polanski spent 42 days in prison for psychological evaluation. That was not a sentence. That time can be applied to his sentence though. It would be the same thing if a suspect was remanded without bail during his/her trial. It isn't part of a punishment, but is usually credited towards the overall punishment. Polanski hasn't been sentenced yet. So he never served time for his punishment.
People who quote "Wanted and Desired" got the facts wrong. The judge told Polanski if he went to prison for a psych eval, he would go with the advice of the evaluators. He was supposed to spend 90 day, he spent 42. What wasn't covered by the one-sided documentary was that Polanski offered his doctors movie roles in exchange for an early release and a great evaluation.
Also, that documentary has already been exposed for having at least one account (the most damaging one at that) being totally fabricated. Who knows if there aren't others.
Also, Angelica Houston was not present at the start of the rape and arrived sometime after the rape started.
What also wasn't covered in the documentary was that Polanski lied to Ms. Geimer's mother (who didn't deliver her daughter to Polanski, but Polanski picked up Ms. Geimer to bring her to a shoot) by telling her that French Vogue had committed to run the pictures of her daughter like they did with Polanski's pictures of Brooke Shields. French Vogue had not approved of any photo shoot.
HOW CAN I MAKE THIS ANY MORE CLEAR?!
Polanski DID NOT rape her.
she consensually had sex and took drugs
yes, she was to young, and it's a shame, but WAS NOT RAPE.
she wants the case dropped because she has a conscience.
her stage mother set up the whole thing for money/attention.
NOW GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS!!!
Re: toodaloo – Go read Samantha Geimer's grand jury testimony and tell me that he didn't rape her. She repeatedly told him no. Sorry, but even in 1977, no still meant no. She did not consent. Besides, there is no state in the Union that gives a 13 year old the authority to give consent to sex with someone over 18. Even if she did consent to having sex which she flatly denies she did, it is still rape.
She was paid off before. He needs to be in jail. Period. He admitted to the crime. If he had not ran 30 years ago she wouldn't be in the headlines now.
Wow. Could this jerk have messed up this poor girl's life even more? I realize it's a real inconvenience for her and always has been, but victims are in the unique position to set the record straight and make a change so the rest of the innocent people in the world don't go through the same things. Regardless of the unending toll this has clearly taken on this woman, she is always going to be identified with this whether he's in jail or not. She might as well champion to get him behind bars where he belongs so he can't destroy another woman again. It's this kind of silence that creates a more dangerous world for all of us to grow up in. Speak out against your attackers and let justice prevail.
She's already been bother by the media might aswell follow through
Perez; if you did any research, you would know that she has advocated dropping charges for quite a few years, way before the current frenzy.
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the paparazzi should go bother somebody else that doesn't have a job that has a risk of losing.
RE: Natanya #112 You will probably not read this post as it is coming in so late and Perez may not even post it. But, my observation about H town sticking together was about the movie industry, that is all. I had to re read your post several times to figure out your comment about Jew bashing. That thought did not occur to me at all and I was so confused. My comment was about the movie stars who all stood up: Harrison Ford (one of my favorite) clapping and others who I can't remember now. It was about Hollywood industry. I am not sure how you read anything else into that comment, but for what it's worth, it was about the myriad stars standing in ovation, solidarity for one of their own (stars). That is all.
Re: dangertwinkie – DanderT…I did not make myself clear I think either…I was not referring to you with J bashing…I was referring to anyone else who might read the post and J-bash as most often tends to happen. There are a lot of Anti-Semites. I certainly did not mean to lump you into that. I had two separate thoughts that I did not make clear-the first was in agreement with the Hollywood establishment pandering to famous people, and the second was that is was gross that he is getting accolades for such a sensitive subject when people who lived through it like my father in law certainly do not want to be represented by him in front of the world at an awards show. I work at 3am…sometimes I am not as clear as I would like to be! My apologies for having two thoughts mashed together badly!!! Peace….
BUT HE WAS SENTENCED!! HE DID GO TO PRISON. But after his sentence the judge decided he should do some more time. he wasn't unpunished. this is a legal system mistake. it's all sketchy if you ask me.
That woman who took $500,000 as a sensible settlement may want this matter dropped. I don't. I am another victim. My friend Sandra doesn't want this matter dropped. She is another victim. This case only makes sense if you understand that the first woman's story is not what is about to come into the media world. Or then again, Polanski has money and I don't….
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I agree with you all, justice for all but it was 30 years ago! why now????
Re: bluberrypie – it's extremely sketchy and Polanski did what he had to do. Both Polanski's lawyer Douglas Dalton and the assistent district attorney Roger Gunson wanted judge Laurence J. Rittenband off the case because he wasn't to be trusted. Gunson even said he would have done the same thing Polanski did, get out of the US. Your system failed. Deal with it.