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Monday, April 26, 2010

Famous Director Flees Accused of Rape

Film Director, Roman Polanski, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl fled to France to aviod extradition.

Swiss authorities arrested 76-year-old Polanski at the lifetime achievement award film festival in Zurich. Polanski is an Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist." Polanski was imprisoned for more than two months before being transferred to his Alpine chalet in the luxury resort of Gstaad where he was put on house arrest after a $4.5 million bail.

Meanwhile the California Spreme Court has ruled that Polanski must appear before a U.S. court to be sentenced.

According to the LA Times, Justice Ministry spokeman Folco Galli confimed that Switzerland recieved an offical copy of the ruling.

"We've said that we will wait for this decision to ensure that our proceedings are harmonized with those in the United States," Galli told The Associated Press. "That doesn't mean an extradition decision will now be immediately sent out."


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