Director Roman Polanski goes on trial for defamation

 Director Roman Polanski goes on trial for defamation

A court in Paris was due to begin hearing a defamation lawsuit against the veteran film director, Roman Polanski, on Tuesday.

An English entertainer, Charlotte Lewis, brought the body of evidence against the 90-year-old Franco-Clean movie producer.

He told Paris Match magazine, in 2019, that she lied about being physically attacked by him forty years prior.

Mr Polanski escaped the US in 1978 in the wake of conceding having intercourse with a thirteen-year-old young lady.

A few different ladies have since approached with claims that Mr Polanski manhandled them. He denies all cases against him.

Mr Polanski, who dwells in Paris, won't go to the preliminary, and will be addressed by his legitimate group, his attorneys said.

Ms Lewis, who lives in the UK, was supposed to be available.

Ms Lewis told French paper Le Parisien she had recorded the case a long time back, and keeping in mind that it had been a "long and horrendous" process, she was prepared for the preliminary.

In 2010, Ms Lewis blamed the chief for attacking her in "the absolute worst way" when she was 16 out of 1983 in Paris, after she had gone there for a projecting. She later showed up in his 1986 film Privateers.

In a 2019 meeting with the Paris Match magazine, the France-conceived producer guaranteed it was a "egregious falsehood".

Paris Match revealed that during the meeting he supposedly read from a 1999 article in the now-dead English newspaper paper Insight about the World, which cited Lewis as saying: "I was entranced by him, and I needed to be his sweetheart."

Ms Lewis has said the statements ascribed to her in that interview were not precise.

She recorded an objection for criticism, and the movie chief was naturally charged under French regulation.

Mr Polanski, known for films including Chinatown, The Musician, and Rosemary's Child, has confronted contention for a really long time since escaping the US.

He has French and Clean citizenship, and has avoided different removal endeavors by US specialists.