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Roman Polanski Says Supporters "A Source Of Comfort And Hope"
Posted on Tue Dec 29, 2009 09:00 AM PDT
Roman Polanski has written a letter thanking his supporters from the Alpine chalet where he's currently under house arrest.
"I have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and sympathy I have received in Winterthur prison, and that I continue to receive here, in my chalet in Gstaad, where I am spending the holidays with my wife and my children," says Polanski, in a letter written to friend Bernard-Henri Levy, who made it public at the director's request.
"I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail. In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope," Polanski writes.
After more than 60 days in a Swiss jail, Polanski was transferred to his chalet earlier this month, where he was able to spend the holidays with his family.
He's currently waiting to find out if he'll face extradition to the US for sentencing in his 1978 trial for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Having to hang out in a Swiss chalet where you get to work and hang out with your family hardly sounds like imprisonment!
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Comments
oh that is just soooooo sweet
how wonderful that the poor rapist is comforted there in his Swiss chalet, must have been so tough to have his swanky life momentarily interrupted for this pesky little crime
it's getting so hard to be a rapist and pedophile these days, it's not looked well upon like back in the 1970s -- unless you're in Europe apparently
DIE, CHILD RAPIST, DIE.
Things were different in the 70s.
And don't forget, this was an already sexually experienced 13 year old, who had consentual sex with him.
If anything, perhaps her mother shouldn't have pushed her daughter Polanski's way and left them alone together.
Another high profile California case that a DA is trying to make political hay out of.
It will cost CA taxpayers a fortune and for what?
The "victim" does NOT want him prosecuted.
Put this 30 odd year old case to rest already!!
Really. They should let this one go , the case is too old. Hopefully, Switzerland won't extradite him and save us all a bundle of money.
Damn celebrities!!!!!!!!!! Quit writing this child sicko!!!! What the hell, I hope he rots in prison!!
Damn celebrities!!!!!!!!!! Quit writing this child abusing sicko!!!! What the hell, I hope he rots in prison!!
Once a child molester ALWAYS a child molester! Cant beleive ANYONE would have anything to do with this sick F*ck..
It was not consensual sex.
Stop spreading those lies.
She said no and asked him to take her home. He decided to drug and rape her instead.
Even if she hadn't, it is illegal to have sex with a 13 year old girl.
He was an adult responsible for his own actions.
The victim is battle fatigued from this hanging over her head her whole life thanks to that coward hiding in France. What she wants is irrelevant to the law.
He needs to go to jail and stop selfishly dragging this out and wasting everyone's time and money.
Frightening this sick midget has kids of his own.
The kid had a companion and Polanski told the companion to hit the road and the mother didn't know
She was trying to be an actress not get raped, there was no reason to think Polanski was a deviant. He was one of the top directors at that time. If people said don't leave your kid with Spielberg, that would be crazy.
Regardless, nobody but Polanski inserted his pen-s into her and drugged her and held her prisoner. He's responsible and his defenders can keep trying to blame everything and everyone under the sun, but he needs to be 'brought to justice'
If you're upset about the cost, direct your anger at him for drawing it out so long.
It was not OK in the 70's to have sex with a 13 year old--were you there?--were you druged out of your mind?--I know people that were and they look back and think the crap they did was OK because of the drugs. It was not. A lot of people were hurt.
Excuse me??? Sex with a teen?? How about drugging, molesting and raping a child anally. OMG Polanski you have no right to be in a chalet you need to be behind bars. You are a freaking creep!
Child phedophils stay child rapist of a 13 year old and he flew away to hide.
If u were the father of that 13 year what are u gonna feel for this psycho?If that happens to me i´m gonna rent a hitman to kill him little by little
He was already a very famous director in 77,he didn't need to"rape"her in order to have sex .I think because of his fame he could have slept with every girl he wanted...So leave him alone,the girl was almost14(not a child),sexually active and she forgave him!
If I were this girls mother I would not have taken her to a casting couch interview.
And I would bet the hell out of the little overdeveloped slut for having sex wayyy before meeting Polanski.
LOL yeah, beat the skank out of her early.
Hard to understand why the mother did not go after whoever first de-flowered her daughter.
Instead, she chose to go after Polanski.
This case semed fishy to me 30 years ago and it still does.
Another Los Angeles D.A. attempt to obtain higher office from a highprofile case?????
All the pedophiles are coming out of the woodwork.
She was a prepubescent.
Sex with a kid is illegal and sick. Period.
From the court record, sounds like he pre-meditated the entire incident. It's just a fancier version of a creep in a beaten up old car asking a little girl if she wants some candy.
Pedophiles probably can sniff out the vulnerable. A young girl from a broken home, not very sophisticated. Easy pickings for a pedophile.
He was a 45 year old man who pretended professional interest, tricked her into a photo shoot, told her friend to leave. He drugged her and boozed her up. Even then she said no.
She said no, was crying and asked to go home.
He would not take her home.
He held her prisoner and drugged her. He had the presence of mind to ask if she was on birth control (wtf?)
He raped her and anal raped her.
He ran like a cowering little animal that he is.
This poor woman has had the most humiliating details of her life smeared all over the world, and now all over the internet. It has defined her entire life. Now her kids have to hear it.
Lock this monster up. He is still hiding and whining like a whimpering pos.
Whoopi Goldberg--a supporter of Polanski--famously said regarding this: "Well ... there's rape and there's rape."
Fine. I hope they put Polanski in a cell with a 300LB weightlifter named "Shirley" who finds Polanski's celebrity 'hot'. Then we'll see how Senor Polanski likes a taste of his own medicine.
Because after all, there's rape, and there's rape....
@10:02 "Things were different in the 70s."
Ha! Well then, maybe Polanski should have stuck around taken his punishment then. Because it's not the 70s anymore, and nowadays, sex with a 13-year-old child--no matter whether she had consented, had sex before, or begged for it and thrown her underpants--is illegal and frowned upon mightily.
I hope they put this guy away and throw away the key.
And if they can't do that, I hope they make him come back and fight this thing all the way and make his life a living hell for him as long as they possibly can.
What a dirt bag.
@12:59 The reason the mother didn't get angry at her 13 year old's first lover was that he was 17 years old and the girl's boyfriend.
Still not the best, but two stupid kids playing around when they shouldn't have hardly compares to a 45-year-old predator like Polanski.
Hope they roast this f*cker. I don't care how much it costs, I hope they make an example of him like no other. If they allow this in Europe, fine; go do it there. But don't do it here, a$$hole. Don't ever do it here, or we'll chop off your member and put it on ice!
Her sex life is irrelevant.
If she had mutual sex with her boyfriend, that doesn't mean it's ok for Polanski to rape. Women aren't objects for men to use, as much as men might wish it so. This is why the woman didn't want to pursue it. Everyone's nose in her most personal and private business. He must be punished or it is a signal to all pedophiles and rapists that it's ok, especially if you're rich and famous. WTH is wrong with this sicko being turned on by a 13 year old anyhow.
Meanwhile, put his sex life under the microscope for equal measure. When did he first have sex, what's the size of his little d-ck (probably tiny, he's very very short man), etc. Let him feel some of the humiliation and powerlessness she has endured.
And if having had sex with someone you love makes a person open season for rape, then old Polanski will have a grand time in prison. If there were any justice, he'd be ass raped in prison and that's probably why he's flipping. Can dish it out but can't take it.
I WAS THE ONE WHO WAS RAPED!!! AND I DID NOT SAY YOU COULD PUT THIS STORY ON WHY DID U DO THAT I SAID TOO U DO NOT PUT THIS ON WEB OR ANYWHERE I WAS 13 UU ARE SICK I DID NOTTT WANT THIS ON JUST PLZ STOP SENDING E-MAILS LIKE HAHA U GOT RAPED I GOT AN EMAIL LIKE THAT EVERY 5 MINS PLZZZZZZZ LET ME FORGEET ABOUT IT PLZZZZZZ
I WAS THE ONE WHO WAS RAPED!!! AND I DID NOT SAY YOU COULD PUT THIS STORY ON WHY DID U DO THAT I SAID TOO U DO NOT PUT THIS ON WEB OR ANYWHERE I WAS 13 UU ARE SICK I DID NOTTT WANT THIS ON JUST PLZ STOP SENDING E-MAILS LIKE HAHA U GOT RAPED I GOT AN EMAIL LIKE THAT EVERY 5 MINS PLZZZZZZZ LET ME FORGEET ABOUT IT PLZZZZZZ