Roman Polanski sex victim to publish memoir

PanARMENIAN.Net - The woman who was sexually abused by film director Roman Polanski more than three decades ago in one of Hollywood's most long-running scandals is to write a memoir on the subject, The Guardian said.

Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time and is now 47, will publish The Girl: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski next autumn through Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint. Geimer has long argued against the prosecution of Polanski, who fled the US in 1977 for France after it became clear he would face jail time following his guilty plea to unlawful sex with a minor.

"I am more than 'sex victim girl', a tag the media pinned on me," said Geimer in a statement. "I offer my story now without rage, but with purpose – to share a tale that in its detail will reclaim my identity. I have been dogged by tired thinking and easy tags nearly my entire life. I am not a stick figure. I know what it is like to be a woman and a victim in the realest possible way."

Polanski successfully fought extradition to the U.S. after being arrested in Switzerland in 2009 in connection with the three-decade-old charge against him. Though he had earlier insisted his victim "wasn't unresponsive", he later apologised to Geimer in an interview for the 2011 documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir. "She is a double victim: my victim, and a victim of the press," he said.