Polanski Speaks Out, Wants Out

2 May 2010 5:18 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

On Sunday Roman Polanski stated that "he can remain silent no longer" over his still-unresolved rape case, now 33 years old, and distributed a statement to the media. Actually his old friend Bernard-Henri Lévy sent around the 908-word statement, reports the NYT. Polanski has been under house arrest at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland, where the authorities have to determine whether or not to extradite the filmmaker to the United States to face sentencing in an L.A. Court, something he has been avoiding for three decades. He was arrested entering Switzerland for a tribute on September 26. “I can remain silent no longer because the request for my extradition addressed to the Swiss authorities is founded on a lie,” writes Polanski, who blames Marina Zenovich's »

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