- Samantha Geimer was born on March 31, 1963 in the USA.
- In 1977, she was the 13-year-old girl at the center of a statutory rape case against director Roman Polanski.
- Her illicit sexual interlude with Roman Polanski occurred 10 March 1977 at the home of Jack Nicholson who was away with Anjelica Huston on a ski trip in Colorado at the time.
- Daughter of Susan Gailey.
- Her father was a criminal defense attorney.
- At the time of the Polanski incident her step-father Bob published 'Marijuana Monthly', a magazine for cannabis smokers. According to Geimer, her stepfather Bob, her mother Susan Gailey and she herself were flattered by Polanski's attention and quickly agreed to his photo shoot offer. Geimer already had a modeling portfolio before the incident. Polanski had the following assignment from the French Vogue: He would shoot a series of photographs about young girls, that would, he says in his autobiography, "show girls as they really were these days - sexy, pert, and thoroughly human".
- [asking the judge in court to drop the case against Roman Polanski] He got arrested. I knew he was sorry the next day. I was sure he instantly regretted what he had done and wished it hadn't happened. It just wasn't as traumatic for me as everyone would like to believe it was. I was a young sexually active teenager and it was a scary thing, but it was not an uncommon thing. I understood much worse things happened to people. So, I was just not as traumatized as everybody thinks I should have been. I was almost 14. I wasn't 10. [June 9, 2017]
- [asking the judge in court to drop the case against Roman Polanski] I am not speaking on behalf of Roman, but justice. I implore you to consider to resolve this matter without incarcerating an 83-year-old man. [June 9, 2017]
- I don't carry feelings of anger towards Polanski [Roman Polanski]. I even have some sympathy for him, what with his mother dying in a concentration camp and then his wife Sharon Tate being murdered by Charles Manson's people and spending the last 20 years as a fugitive. Life was hard for him, just like it was for me. He did something really gross to me, but it was the media that ruined my life. [1997, PEOPLE]
- Judge Rittenband [Laurence J. Rittenband] asked if my mother and I were a mother-daughter hooker team in court... When this happened, my mother and I were lying gold diggers who were attacking poor unfortunate Roman [Roman Polanski]. It was a much different story. I was [called] a drug-doing Lolita that had cornered him into this. And I was lying. [L.A. Times, June 2017]
- [what she thought of Roman Polanski before the photo shoot in March 1977] Mostly I was thinking: "Ew, there's this guy who's, like, my size and sort of looks like a ferret. But he's super-powerful and he wants to photograph me. Me!" [2013]
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