Hollywood director Roman Polanski, who was once married to Hollywood star Sharon Tate, has been accused of five cases of sexual assault against children, as of 2017 according to Vox. Polanski pled guilty to one rape charge against a then 13-year-old, Samantha Geimer in 1977, but moved to France abruptly.
Polanski has done the opposite of denied his attraction to girls and teens. He released an autobiography titled Roman, in 1985, in which he announced and explained his attraction to teens as young as age 15. He seemingly reiterated his attraction to young girls when he told Martin Ames in 1979: "Judges want to f*** young girls. Juries want to f*** young girls—everyone wants to f*** young girls!"
The director also addressed his lack of prison time, where he could have spent up to 50 years behind bars, saying he did time in prison after fleeing for France. "As far as what I did: it's over," Polanski said to The Guardian in 2017. "I pleaded guilty. I went to jail. I came back to the United States to do it, people forget about that, or don't even know. I then was locked up here [in Zurich] after this festival. So in the sum, I did about four or five times more than what was promised to me."
Past the sexual assault accusations, Polanski has been vocal about still loving Tate. She and four others were brutally murdered in her home by Charles Manson's family in 1969. At the time, Tate was nearly nine months pregnant with Polanski's child. She was 26 at the time of her death.
"Even after so many years, I find myself unable to watch a spectacular sunset or visit a lovely old house or experience visual pleasure of any kind without instinctively telling myself how much she would have loved it all," he said in the book Sharon Tate Recollection, written by Tate's sister, Debra. "In these ways, I shall remain faithful to her till the day I die."
The director explained how loved Tate was by the Hollywood community. "In those days, she was not just the love of my life, she was the love of everyone's life," he expressed. "Sharon was more than just stunning to look at. She wasn't naïve or stupid or a cliché starlet. What had impressed me most about her, quite apart from her exceptional beauty, was the sort of radiance that springs from a kind and gentle nature."
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