The lady who was raped by disgraced director Roman Polanski when she was 13 years previous got here out of hiding years earlier than the newest allegation towards him, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
A surprising report not solely revealed the sufferer’s id but in addition the lasting influence the sexual assault had on her life.
In response to a 1997 interview with Star journal, Samantha Geimer denied Polanski’s declare that they’d consensual intercourse and stated he gave her a drug and liquor earlier than he pressured himself on her and sodomized her.
Polanski — whose spouse, Sharon Tate, was murdered by members of the Manson household — pled responsible to having illegal intercourse with a minor. He fled the U.S. a day earlier than his sentencing.
Whereas Polanski claimed {the teenager} gave him consent earlier than they’d intercourse at Jack Nicholson‘s Beverly Hills house, Geimer denied ever doing so. She stated Polanski’s allegations that she enticed him into Nicholson’s sizzling tub and bed room had been outrageous lies.
Geimer spoke out in regards to the 1977 incident that destroyed her Hollywood goals, drove her right into a extreme despair, and made her flip to a world of drug-laced events.
“I didn’t lure Roman Polanski into intercourse,” then-33-year-old Geimer informed the outlet. “He raped me. In a single afternoon I misplaced all my innocence, all my capability to belief folks.”
“However that was simply the beginning of it. I used to be hounded, persecuted and smeared,” the sufferer added. “I had accused one of many best-known males in Hollywood of forcing himself on me, and when Polanski claimed it was consensual, everybody believed him.”
“Polanski’s attorneys have made me out time and again to be this little Lolita who seduced this grown man,” Geimer continued. “It has been like being raped another time.”
Geimer claimed Polanski plied her with champagne and the prescription “love drug” quaalude earlier than he raped her. She stated actress Anjelica Huston, who was Nicholson’s girlfriend on the time, was within the subsequent room. Huston later recalled the night in police testimony.
Polanski grew to become obsessive about taking photos of Geimer for a French journal and led her to imagine she had a shot at stardom.
The primary time he photographed her topless, he didn’t contact her. The second time he picked her up at her divorced mom’s home, he made his intentions clear however she was too naive to appreciate it on the time.
“Within the automotive he requested if I would had intercourse and if I knew what quaaludes had been,” stated Geimer, who had solely had intercourse as soon as along with her teenage boyfriend. “I did not need this well-known director to suppose I used to be unsophisticated. I stated I knew what a quaalude was and I exaggerated and informed him I had intercourse twice.”
Polanski then drove her to Nicholson’s house on Mulholland Drive. Geimer recalled Polanski giving her “4 or 5 glasses” of champagne, “taking photos as I drank them.”
“I’ve seen these photos now — and you’ll inform from the look on my face that I used to be intoxicated. Then Polanski informed me to get into the Jacuzzi. I did not have a washing swimsuit, so I obtained in carrying my underwear.”
“Then he obtained in nude and stated, ‘Come as much as this finish and take the whole lot off.”
The combination of alcohol and medicines prevented Geimer from combating off the director, though she stated she stored telling him she wished to go house.
“Then he took me by my shoulders, walked me right into a bed room, and began to have intercourse with me. I informed him, ‘No! No!’ I used to be so frightened, however I believed, If I battle him, God is aware of what would occur.”
In 2023, Geimer modified her tune on Polanski and posed for a photograph with the director. She claimed the 1977 rape was “by no means an enormous downside” and stated, “what occurred with Polanski was by no means an enormous downside for me.”