Polanski Agrees to Pay USD 500 000 to Sex Victim

Polanski initially fought the claim. But after Polanski was deposed in Paris in 1993, the sides began settlement discussions, records show. Photo by BGNES

Roman Polanski has agreed to pay the victim in his child-sex case at least USD 500 000 as part of a civil settlement.

However, according to court filings reviewed Friday, he failed to live up to the terms of the agreement, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The documents leave open the question of whether the fugitive filmmaker has ever paid the money he promised in the confidential 1993 settlement with Samantha Geimes. A change in her approach to Polanski in subsequent years suggests they may have resolved the issue.

In 1996, she was still trying to get the funds and even attempted to garnish his pay from movie studios. By the following year, she had stopped asking for court help to get paid and wrote a letter to a judge in support of Polanski returning to the United States and settling his criminal case without spending more time behind bars.

The deal they hammered out called, in part, for Polanski to pay Geimer USD 500 000 with interest no later than October 11, 1995, according to filings by her attorney.

"It's been a long time. I don't wish for him to be held to further punishment or consequences", Geimer said.

Geimer was 13 in 1977 when she told police that Polanski had raped and sodomized her during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home.

Polanski, then 43, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but left the country before sentencing.

A decade later, Geimer filed suit against him, using the pseudonym "Jane Doe" and seeking unspecified financial damages for, among other things, sexual assault, false imprisonment, seduction of a minor and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Polanski initially fought the claim. But after Polanski was deposed in Paris in 1993, the sides began settlement discussions, records show.

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