“It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Charlotte Lewis.
This Tuesday March 5, before the Paris court, Roman Polanski was tried for defamation against the British actress.
In an interview with Paris Match in December 2019, the filmmaker described the words of the actress, who accused him of having raped her in 1983 when she was 16, as a “heinous lie”.
Asked about the “interest” she would have in “wrongly accusing him”, he replied: “What do I know?
Frustration?
We would have to question psychologists, scientists, historians, whatever.”
Unsurprisingly, Roman Polanski, 90 years old, was absent, represented by his lawyers Delphine Meillet and Alain Jakubowicz.
Assisted by Me Benjamin Chouai, Charlotte Lewis, 56, spent two hours at the bar.
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