Roman Polanski — The Sick Secrets Behind His Rape Trial

Roman Polanski continues to hide away in luxury as he dodges child-molestation charges in America. U.S. authorities are still trying to extradite him for the sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977. Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has even declared that Polanski's film career is less important than the director being "accused of and wanted for…a rape of a child!"

The National ENQUIRER revealed in October of 2015 that a court in Poland — where Polanski has citizenship — ruled that the “Rosemary’s Baby” director couldn't be extradited to America to face criminal charges. Polanski, now 82, had fled to Europe in the middle of trying to negotiate a plea bargain over drugging and sexually assaulting young Samantha during a party at the home of Hollywood star Jack Nicholson. Since then, the director has continued to work with major stars like Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford while fighting extradition. Unfortunately for Polanksi, Poland has a new right-wing government that believes he should face justice.

Polanski was once a major figure in Hollywood, and was beloved for making acclaimed hits like 1974's "Chinatown." He also had a lot of sympathy after his actress wife Sharon Tate was among the Hollywood socialites killed by the homicidal hippies under the direction of Charles Manson in 1969. But the director became a pariah among many people after The ENQUIRER published the sick details of how Roman sexually assaulted Samantha under the pretenses of doing a photo shoot.

Samantha and the acclaimed Polish auteur (seen here with fellow accused pervert director Woody Allen) met when he asked Geimer’s parents if he could photograph their daughter, 13, in a test shoot for French Vogue. “My mom gently suggested she come along on the shoot,” Samantha later revealed in a book about her strange infamy. “There was a long pause. ‘No,’ Roman said, [explaining that] her presence might make me uncomfortable and unable to relax in front of the camera. She didn’t fight him; there were already stories about Brooke Shields' crazy controlling stage mother, and she certainly didn’t want to be that.”

After an uncomfortable test shoot where Polanski pressured her to pose in the nude, Samantha claimed Polanski felt the shoot was “not working” and requested she remove her shirt. She explained: “I felt I had to rise to the challenge … I was a professional.” Soon after, she wrote: “My ticket to stardom showed up again … Sure the last time was super-uncomfortable, but that was the price of fame.” He offered to do another shoot with Samantha at Nicholson ‘s L.A. home, and she readily agreed.

On the way over, Samantha said, Polanski asked her if she had a boyfriend and if she had ever had sex. When she answered “Yes … twice,” to the latter, she claims, “Roman stopped asking questions.” Upon arrival at the house, Polanski pulled a bottle of champagne from the fridge. Almost immediately after serving Geimer, she says, Polanski asked her to take off her top, and again, she agreed.  “He refills my glass,” she recalled. “I drink more. He keeps refilling … I’m aware I have a little buzz going. … My glass never gets empty.”

Polanski told Samantha to get into the Jacuzzi while in her panties, she says, and soon produced a Quaalude tranquilizer, which — after some prodding — Samantha ingested. After taking a few shots of Geimer in the Jacuzzi, Polanski announced the light was insufficient, Samantha said. “He puts his camera down and says he’s getting in,” she remembered. “He’s getting in. I’m fine with taking off my top … But this? No.”

“How f**king stupid could I be?" she wrote. "It’s a hard thought to hold on to. The water is hot, and the steam is rising into the night … I knew this wasn’t right … He pulls me a little closer by the waist and helps hold me up a little and moves me above one of the jets so I can feel the bubble tickling up between my legs. … There’s nothing good about it, but I know what he’s getting at.”

“Then everything hits at once,” Geimer recalled. “The steam, the heat, the alcohol, the pill and the panic. Have you ever been touched in a way that made you want to jump right out of your skin? This man had a reputation as a great lover. The problem is, he was not my great lover. I could have been any girl, as long as I was female and as long as I was young.”

Feigning asthma, Samantha climbed out of the Jacuzzi and asked to go home, but Polanski allegedly would not be deterred. “He holds my arms at my sides and kisses me,” she wrote. “And I say, ‘No, come on,’ but between the pill and the champagne, it’s like my own voice is very far away.” Then he began to perform oral sex on her, she said.  “I don’t want this, my mind recoils, but my body is betraying me. And that’s when I check out. I go far, far away. There is a sense of complete and utter emptiness.”

That night, Samantha (seen here in 2013) told her family and police what had happened. Polanski was then arrested and charged in L.A. with sexual assault by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts upon a child, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. He fled to France on Feb. 1, 1978, just hours before his sentencing.

Today, Samantha says that she forgives the director. Like Sharon Tate's sister, she no longer supports attempts to extradite him to face justice. But not everyone is as forgiving as Roman's victim and his many Hollywood fans — and now Roman's homeland is also out to bring him to justice!