LATEST POLANSKI “VICTIM” TRIES TO REKINDLE HER LONG FADED CELEBRITY

Opinion

By Blogonaut

Robert Harris has raised some thought provoking questions about actress, Charlotte Lewis’ retention last week of Gloria Alred and the faded star's international press conference announcing that director Roman Polanski “forced himself” on her “in the worst possible way” when she was “only 16 years old”.

Setting aside the facts that the “actress” (who has not worked in 7 years) chose to come forward with this 1983 tale of “abuse” in a Paris apartment not through a quiet word to Los Angeles prosecutors but to the international media with the same press hog (Alred) who represented two of Tiger Woods’ mistresses, that the age of consent in France is 15, and that Lewis never told the tale before: This is not the first press conference wherein the actress mentioned Polanski. Except then, several years after the year of the alleged assault, the actress gushed about how sexy Polanski is, how she would like to know him “physically” but that he had never laid a hand on her!

Not to mention the fact that the occasion for the press conference was her part in a Roman Polanski film that she accepted AFTER the alleged assault occurred.

That’s right, Lewis is now alleging that Polanski “took advantage” of her “in the worst possible way” in 1983—but the alleged experience was not so traumatic that it prevented her from being directed in Polanski’s 1986 film Pirates.

Not only that, the former Playboy centerfold had this to say about Polanski at the time:

"I found him very attractive. I'd love to have had a romantic relationship with him – and a physical one. You can't help falling in love with him. But he didn't want me that way."

But there’s more, a third version by Lewis.

A profile, titled "Wild Child", clearly written with Lewis' cooperation, appeared in the News of the World on 8 August 1999: "In a no-holds-barred interview Charlotte … confessed how she seduced kinky director Polanski when she was a nubile 17-year-old …"

Meanwhile, Gloria Alred—who is perhaps the single most annoying public figure in the media universe—tersely brushed off a press question if Lewis was “"shopping for a book deal" with: "Next question."

Of course she is.

As for Alred’s motivation: Put up a news camera and Klieg lights and she will come.

Read the full Robert Harris piece in the Guardian UK here.