The only 'extortion' that happened- was that there was a completely lawful lawsuit filed against Polansky- which means it was not 'extortion'.
And yes- people do say 'sodomize' still- when it comes to sexual assault.
Yeah, but it's still one of those quaint little words that people with sexual hangups use.
And sorry, when you drop your 13 year old daughter off at a party, and then don't testify about it in a criminal trial, but you make sure to file a lawsuit... yeah, I think extortion was always the plan here.
yeah- when you post over and over again in support of Polansky, clearly you are being paid by Polansky to fluff up his image- yeah- that is the only possibility.
The victim was so 'money hungry' that she didn't file her lawsuit for 11 years.....you know that is how 'grifter's' work.
And of course the mother never did.
Please stay far away from women.
Timeline:
On March 10, 1977, the then 43-year-old Polanski (whose wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969) picked up Gailey from her mother's house in Los Angeles for a photo shoot. Polanski had first photographed the 13-year-old several weeks prior: He told the aspiring model that the pictures would appear in French
Vogue, and she posed topless upon his request.
According to Gailey's April 4, 1977
grand-jury testimony, Polanski drove her to Jack Nicholson's house. The actor wasn't home, but his ex-girlfriend Anjelica Huston was there when they arrived. Polanski poured Gailey champagne and they took more photographs. After they shared a quaalude, he instructed her to strip and enter a Jacuzzi, where—despite her protests—he soon joined her, after removing his own clothes. She lied about having asthma as an excuse to leave the hot tub. Although Gailey repeatedly told him "no" and asked him to drive her home, he proceeded to perform oral, vaginal, and anal sex on her inside the house. Gailey told the grand jury she was reluctant to resist because she was "afraid" of Polanski.
Polanski was
arrested at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on March 11, the next day, after Samantha's mother called the police. On the 24th of that month, he was indicted on
six felony counts, among them "furnishing a controlled substance to a minor" and "rape by use of drugs."
Polanski initially plead not guilty to all charges, but eventually accepted a
plea bargain—which Gailey's attorney encouraged in the hopes of protecting his young client from the scrutiny of a public trial—in which five charges were dropped, leaving only the charge of
unlawful sexual intercourse (statutory rape), the least serious of the original six.
Polanski's was a so-called "
open plea," one that allowed the judge to decide his sentence. The plea agreement required Polanski to report for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation at Chino State Prison, but first, Judge Laurence J. Rittenband permitted the director to complete a film. During this stay, Polanski incurred the judge's wrath when he was photographed at a beer hall in Munich, where it appeared that—according to Polanski, who complained that the image was misleading—he was "surrounded by a
bunch of bimbos." He served 42 days in Chino before he was released. The Probation Department and Gailey both
recommended against jail time.
But before the sentencing took place, Judge Rittenband privately discussed his intention to renege on the agreement and send Polanski to prison for 48 more days, followed by
voluntary deportation, with the defendant's attorney. In a panic over the possibility of this harsher-than-expected sentence, the director fled the United States on February 1, 1978, the
very day he would have appeared for his sentencing. He headed to London, then Paris, where he was shielded from extradition as a French citizen.
Samantha Gailey (now married and going by Samantha Geimer) filed a civil lawsuit against the director in 1988, and the terms of their settlement required Polanski to pay her
$500,000 with interest. He was
slow to pay this debt off and it's unclear how much he may still owe her.
