After lawsuit by Lewis
Defamation trial: Polanski acquitted
A Paris court has acquitted the French-Polish director Roman Polanski in a defamation trial. The competent press chamber did not classify Polanski's statements about the British actress Charlotte Lewis as defamation on Tuesday. The 90-year-old did not take part in the verdict.
Polanski, who has been accused of sexual violence and even rape by several women, had been sued by Lewis. She accused him of falsely accusing her of lying.
Lewis claims to have been misquoted
In the background was the actress' accusation that Polanski had raped her in Paris in 1983 when she was 16 years old. However, these allegations did not result in legal proceedings because Lewis said she believed that the case was time-barred.
In an interview in 2019, Polanski had accused Lewis of "despicable lies" and explained that the actress had boasted in a tabloid that she had seduced the director.
Lewis declared during the trial that she had been misquoted. A British journalist, however, testified that he had paid the actress for the interview.
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