Roman Polanski Finally Admits 13-Year-Old Girl Was His 'Victim'

In a new documentary, Roman Polanski publicly admits for the first time that he actually hurt Samantha Geimer when he raped her back in 1977.

According to the Telegraph, the film Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival yesterday, includes the following assessment of Geimer by Polanski: “She is a double victim: my victim and a victim of the press.” Polanski has never denied having sex with Geimer when she was 13 years old — at his 1978 trial, he pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. And in a now-infamous 1979 interview, he said,

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!

Previously, Polanski and many of his supporters have treated the 1977 night when he gave Geimer champagne and quaaludes and then penetrated her against her will like it was a bit of harmless fun — Polanski’s wife Emmanuelle Seigner chalked the whole thing up to the seventies being “a crazy time.” For the first time, Polanski is admitting that it might’ve been something else — something like, well, rape. It’s too little and too late from a man whose refusal to face justice touched off a groundswell of rape apology by some of the world’s richest and most famous people. But it’s something.

Roman Polanski: Fugitive Director Admits Rape Woman ‘Double Victim’ [Telegraph]