This Day in History: Film director Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France on this day in 1978, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with an underage girl.
At Jack Nicholson’s Mulholland Drive house in 1977, Polanski gave a young girl Champagne and a Quaalude and sodomized her. She was only 13.
Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping the 13-year-old girl. As a result of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor. In 1978, after learning that the judge planned to reject his plea deal and impose a prison term instead of probation, he fled to Paris. A number of other women have later accused Polanski of raping them when they were teenagers. An Interpol red notice was issued for his arrest, and since then rarely leaves France.
This however did not stop Polanski from making movies, and it did not stop major Hollywood actors from working with him.
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