Samantha Geimer

The Interview vor 13 Jahren

The woman at the centre of the Roman Polanski child sex scandal in 1978 tells her story

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In the late 1970s the film director Roman Polanski admitted to
having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. He
spent 42 days in prison then fled the United States because he
feared being given a longer sentence. Much has been said and
written about what happened, but we’ve hardly heard anything from
the girl herself. Hardtalk is in New York to speak to the woman
at the centre of the decades-old scandal, Samantha Geimer. How
has her life been affected by that event nearly 40 years ago?