It’s been over thirty years since Rosemary’s Baby director Roman Polanski fled the U.S. to avoid a prison term for statutory rape, but thanks to a recent documentary about the trial, the unrepentant director thinks he might get the charge erased. Not that he’s claiming innocence or anything (in his autobiography, he claimed he was [...]
#12: The Roman Polanski Rape Trial
Take a 13-year-old American girl, a randy (albeit brilliant) movie director decades her senior, and a nude private photo shoot in Hollywood’s hottest hottub (Jack Nicholson unknowingly donated his to the cause), and you’ve got the ingredients for a monster scandal — even without the champagne and Quaaludes. After churning out some of Hollywood’s most [...]
