{"id":50264,"date":"2024-05-14T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/roman-polanski-did-not-defame-british-actress-french-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:30:15","slug":"roman-polanski-did-not-defame-british-actress-french-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/roman-polanski-did-not-defame-british-actress-french-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Polanski Did Not Defame British Actress, French Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A court in Paris on Tuesday ruled that the film director Roman Polanski did not defame Charlotte Lewis, a British actress who has accused him of raping her, by asserting in a 2019 interview that she was a liar.<\/p>\n

Mr. Polanski, 90, is one of the most prominent men to face accusations of sexism and sexual assault<\/a> in the French movie industry, which on Tuesday also held the first day of the annual Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several women have publicly accused Mr. Polanski<\/a> of sexual assault, though he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Ms. Lewis, 56, says that Mr. Polanski raped her four decades ago, when she was 16, during a casting session at his home in Paris.<\/p>\n

The judges at the Paris court did not rule on whether Mr. Polanski had sexually assaulted Ms. Lewis \u2014 only on whether he had legally overstepped his right to free speech and defamed her by disparaging her account in a 2019 interview with Paris Match<\/a>, a French magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n