In , his parents were imprisoned in various Nazi concentration camps, where his mother eventually died in Auschwitz. In order to escape deportation, Polanski lived with several different Polish families until he was reunited with his father in He went on to become a French-Polish director, scriptwriter, and actor who was famous for exploring themes of isolation, desire, and absurdity through a variety of film genres in Poland, the UK, France and the US.
Polanski returned to Europe after her violent death, which he said influenced his next film, Macbeth, a gory adaptation of William Shakespeare. In , Polanski was indicted on five criminal counts for having sexual relations with a minor, Samantha Gailey.
He was charged with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14 and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. Both Nicholson and his longtime girlfriend, actress Anjelica Huston, testified against Polanski when the highly publicized case was brought to trial. This included the dismissal of the five initial charges in exchange for a guilty plea on one lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.
He was ordered to report to a state prison for a day psychiatric evaluation and was released after 42 days. Ahead of his sentencing it was reported he learnt the judge was considering sending him to prison and ordered him deported.
Polanski fled to France, where he still lives, and remained active in both the theatre and motion pictures. Gailey, now known as Samantha Geimer, sued Polanski in alleging sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and seduction. On April 3, Polanski lost another bid to end his s rape case without serving more jail time when a Los Angeles judge ruled the French-Polish director could not seek relief from the courts while still a fugitive.
He fled the U. Before the scandal, Polanski was a widely respected director. His reputation shifted dramatically after the events of , when he was largely excommunicated from Hollywood. Polanski continued making films overseas and, in , was awarded a best-director Oscar for The Pianist. In the wake of the MeToo movement, the tide more recently turned on Polanski again, with the Academy voting to boot him out of its ranks—a decision Polanski is fighting against. Looking for more?
Sign up for our daily Hollywood newsletter and never miss a story. Members of the group went on to kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the following night, sending shockwaves through Hollywood. However, it would be months before investigators would link the savage crimes to Manson and his followers, ushering in a wave of paranoia in the weeks that followed the killings. I remember Steve McQueen got himself a shotgun and a pistol.
The paranoia and desperation to solve the crime was more heightened for Polanski, who had been in Europe at the time of the slayings. He became convinced the murders had been personal and began to suspect those closest to him. Polanski knew that investigators had discovered a pair of horn-rimmed glasses at the murder scene that they suspected could belong to the killer, so Polanski immediately latched on to that detail.
Polly believes that Polanski may have thought that Lee had been motivated to kill the group because he was still somewhat of an outsider in the Hollywood scene and may have felt some resentment about his position. When Lee mentioned he had lost his own pair of horn-rimmed glasses, Polanski believed that could be the clue they needed to break the case open and offered to take Lee to his own optometrist and gift him with a new pair of glasses.
Lee died in at the age of 32 from a cerebral edema, according to Newsweek. So, I spent my nights sometimes in the garages of my friends, you know, just going through those cars.
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