Shocking new details of the 1977 statutory-rape case against exiled
director Roman Polanski have surfaced - threatening to derail his dramatic
comeback bid for an Oscar.
Graphic testimony from Polanski's then-13-year-old victim before a
California grand jury was recently unsealed and published on the Web site
thesmokinggun.com.
The disturbing revelations include the girl testifying that the pair's
illicit romps at Hollywood hot shot Jack Nicholson's house included anal
and oral sex.
At one point, after plying the girl with champagne and part of a Quaalude,
an obviously concerned Polanski, then 43, demands to know when her last
period was - and if she's on the pill, according to the testimony.
When the girl says she isn't, Polanski wants to sodomize her, she said.
"And I went, 'No,' " the girl said, but she was sodomized anyway.
The victim, Samantha Gailey Geimer, now 39, testified that she resisted "a
little bit, but not really" at the time "because I was afraid of him."
She said the pair's numerous encounters included a nude romp in the hot tub
- where Polanski first made a move on her - and oral sex on the couch.
"He said, 'I'll take you home soon.' And then . . . he started performing
cuddliness," the girl told the grand jury.
Asked what that was, the girl said oral sex.
"I was going, 'No. Come on, stop it.' But I was afraid," Geimer said.
"Sometimes he was saying stuff, but I was just blocking him out," she said.
Geimer said the pair had intercourse minutes later in the bedroom.
The sex continued until they were interrupted by a woman at the house.
The woman has never been officially identified, but news reports have
speculated she may have been actress Angelica Huston, Nicholson's girlfriend.
"Roman, are you in there?" the girl said the woman asked through the door.
"Yes. I just got out of the Jacuzzi, and I'm getting dressed," she said he
replied.
Polanski then started having sex with her again, the girl said. Eventually,
she got up off the bed, dressed, ran out to his car and wept.
The girl said the pair's relationship began innocently, with him taking
photos of her for French Vogue.
But the photo shoots first took a darker turn when he asked her to take off
her shirt and began snapping away - and things steadily grew hotter, she said.
Polanski has argued that their sex was consensual, and that he didn't know
the girl was 13 at the time.
"It was not consensual sex by any means," Geimer, now a mother of three,
wrote just last month in a column in the Los Angeles Times.
"I said no, repeatedly, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. I was alone,
and I didn't know what to do," she said.
"It was scary, and looking back, very creepy."
The Polish-born Polanski fled to France in 1978 as he was about to be
sentenced for having sex with Geimer.
U.S. authorities have vowed to nab him if he ever tries to return.
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