Posts Tagged Roman Polanski

By Suzanna • 10 years ago

The Feministing Five: Samantha Geimer

“Mostly, I just wanted you to know that you are not alone.” So writes Samantha Geimer to the Steubenville “Jane Doe” in the concluding pages of her book, The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski. Geimer continues, “As this fades away to a memory of longer and longer ago, you are not alone. We are survivors, we are many, we are strong.” Geimer’s The Girlrecounts her girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood as the person caught in the international media firestorm of the 1977 Roman Polanski rape case. Driven in 2009 to reclaim her own narrative and her own truth from decades of intrusive reporting, Samantha explains how her journey towards justice was grossly distorted by an ...

“Mostly, I just wanted you to know that you are not alone.” So writes Samantha Geimer to the Steubenville “Jane Doe” in the concluding pages of her book, The Girl: A Life in the ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 12 years ago

Roman Polanski admits the girl he raped was his “victim”

Nearly 35 years after the fact, Roman Polanski, finally concedes that drugging and raping a 13-year old girl was a mistake.

In a new documentary, Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, that premiered at the Zurich Film Festival this week, the award-winning director and bail-jumping fugitive apologized to Samantha Greimer, the woman he raped back in 1977: “She is a double victim: My victim, and a victim of the press.”

Ok, sure. Definitely true that Greimer was a victim of the press–as every woman who accuses a powerful man of rape is. In fact, she was so traumatized by the media attention that hounded her once she pressed charges against Polanski that she eventually just wanted ...

Nearly 35 years after the fact, Roman Polanski, finally concedes that drugging and raping a 13-year old girl was a mistake.

In a new documentary, Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, that premiered at the ...