The woman who was raped by Roman Polanski when she was 13 years old has asked a Los Angeles court to dismiss the charges against the director, who is fighting extradition to the U.S. following his arrest in Zurich last month. Samantha Geimer says she has been barraged with media inquiries since Polanski’s arrest, and that since she’s publicly forgiven the ‘Chinatown’ director for his crime, she’d like for the charges to be dropped. In the court filing, Geimer says she’s received nearly 500 phone calls from the media, including interview offers from Oprah Winfrey and Larry King.
“The pursuit has caused her to have health-related issues,” the filing says of Geimer’s health, adding that the scrutiny has “caused her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job.”
The filing’s final words? “Leave her alone.”
Geimer publicly forgave Polanski in 1997. She was hoping if the case and incident was put to rest, the details of it that continually ran with each Polanski headline would cease.
“True as they may be, the continued publication of those details causes harm to me, my beloved husband, my three children and my mother,” Geimer said recently.
In 1977, Polanski lured the 13-year-old aspiring model Geimer into Nicholson’s home for a photo shoot, where he gave her champagne and prescription drugs. Despite her requests to be taken home, Polanski then took nude photos of her in a hot tub and had sex with her. He later pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor.
“What happened that night, it’s hard to believe, but it paled in comparison to what happened to me in the next year of my life,” Geimer said recently.
She later told PEOPLE magazine in 1997 that Polanski “did something really gross to me, but it was the media that ruined my life.”
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