Roman Polanski reached a settlement in 1973 over alleged sexual abuse of a minor

Film director Roman Polanski has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted a minor. The case was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June 2023 and was scheduled to go to trial in August 2025.

His lawyer Alexandre Rufus-Isaacs told the French publication Agence France-Presse The case was “settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties over the summer and is now officially dismissed,” the lawsuit said Tuesday.

The woman's attorney, Gloria Allred, confirmed the matter The Rolling Stones that “the parties agreed to a settlement of the claim to their mutual satisfaction.”

In suits, per se diversityThe woman known as Jane Doe claims she met Polanski at a party in 1973 when she was a minor. She alleges that a few months later he met her a second time at her home in Benedict Canyon, Southern California, and then he took her out to dinner, gave her shots of tequila and brought her back to his home.

“The plaintiff remembers waking up in bed with the defendant lying in bed next to him,” the suit states. “He told her he wanted to have sex with her. The plaintiff, though angry, told the defendant 'No.' He told her, 'Please don't do it.'

The woman came forward in 2017, identified only as Robin M at the time, and claimed during a press conference in Los Angeles that Polanski “sexually preyed” on her when she was 16 years old. The woman said she told a friend about what happened “the day after the torture” but did not tell her parents. “Because, with that exception, I kept it to myself that I didn't want my dad to do something that could land him in prison for the rest of his life,” she said.

Robin M. said she decided to come forward when she learned that Samantha Geimer, who Polanski admitted to statutory rape when she was 13, planned to ask a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to dismiss Polanski's criminal case forever. . “It bothered me,” Robin M. said in a statement. “I am speaking out now so that Samantha and the world know that she is not the only minor victim of Roman Polanski.”

In a separate statement submitted at the time of the original filing, Polanski's attorney said that, “Mr. Polanski vehemently denies the allegations and believes the court is the proper place to try this case.”

Polanski has faced allegations of sexual assault and rape over the years, including flat claims by German actress Renate Langer, French actress Valentine Monier and American artist Marianne Bernard. He denied the claims. After pleading guilty to having sex with Geimer when she was a minor in Los Angeles in 1977, she returned to her home country of France, which does not extradite its citizens.

In May, he was acquitted of defamation charges in France in a case related to a rape allegation brought by British actress Charlotte Lewis.