The director questioned Charlotte Lewis’ sexual abuse allegation that would have occurred in the early 1980s
Romano Polanski faces a libel trial in Paris over a complaint from the actress Carlotta Lewis against the director for having questioned in the press the veracity of the sexual abuse of which Lewis has accused him, a source familiar with the case told AFP on Wednesday.
Carlotta Lewisborn in 1967, he starred in the film piratesdirected by Romano Polanski in 1986.
In 2010, she claimed she was “sexually abused” by the director in her Paris apartment in the early 1980s, when she was 16.
The current libel complaint concerns a lengthy interview with Polanski with the magazine Paris match published in 2019.
In it, the director calls the actress a “liar” and a “manufacturer” based on the quotes attributed to her in a 1999 interview with the British tabloid. News from the worldwhere the actress would have expressed a wish for him.
In her day, the actress has already denied the quotes that appeared in News from the worldto which Polanski alludes to accuse her of being a liar, were true.
After Lewis’s denunciation by defamationA court decision of August 30 sends Polanski, 89, to the Paris Correctional Court, never tried before in France, in a case related to these sexual abuse allegations, without setting a date for a hearing.
In France, according to the press law, the referral of complaints to the courts is almost automatic and the veracity of the allegations is examined retrospectively at the hearing.
The lawyers of PolanskiHervé Temime and Delphine Meillet refused to comment on the indictment and “reserve their explanations for the court”.
the director of Paris match in this case, whoever published the interview at that time will also be judged.
Source: Terra
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