LOS ANGELES, May 14, (AFP) -Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski was hit by fresh sex crime allegations Friday by a British actress who claimed the director “forced himself” upon her just after her 16th birthday.
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| Charlotte Lewis |
Polanski, who is fighting extradition to the United States to face sentencing in his 1978 child sex case, was accused by actress Charlotte Lewis, now age 42, of abusing her at his apartment in Paris nearly 30 years ago. In a press conference at the Beverly Hills offices of attorney Gloria Allred, Lewis said she was speaking out to counter suggestions from Polanski's legal team that his earlier case was an isolated incident.
“I am also a victim of Roman Polanski. He sexually abused me in the worst possible way when I was just 16 years old,” Lewis said in a prepared statement. Allred said Lewis had given statements to Los Angeles police and prosecutors which she hoped would be taken into consideration if Polanski were extradited back to the United States from Switzerland, where he is under house arrest. |
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