September 28, 2009

Best Article on the Samantha 'Gailey' Date Yet, But it sounds like my first date with my last girlfriend - except for #4 and 1b - Roman Polanski and that night in 1977: a reminder | Film | The Guardian

1. Polanski, then 44, was taking photos of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey for a magazine.

2. He took her back to Jack Nicholson's house and gave her champagne and, according to her, the recreational drug Quaaludes.

3. He then, it's been alleged, sodomised her.

4. He pleaded guilty to sex with a minor, served 42 days, and then fled the country before the final sentencing.

5. The end.

Roman Polanski and that night in 1977: a reminder | Film | The Guardian