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Roman Polanski is a Polish-born movie director and actor.
Polanski and his Jewish father are Holocaust survivors. His Roman Catholic mother was murdered in Auschwitz.[1]
He acquired fame in the 1960's and 70s for horrorful tales of the supernatural, famously Rosemary's Baby (about Satanism) and Chinatown (about adultery). His films frequently included sexual perversions, including extended scenes of transvestism in The Tenant.
In 1969, while Polanski was on a business trip to London, his 8-months pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and their unborn baby were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family cult.[2]
In 1978 he pleaded guilty to "unlawful sexual intercourse" with a thirteen-year-old girl. He fled the country immediately afterwards and prior to sentencing to avoid imprisonment. For almost thirty years he lived comfortably in France, which refused to extradite him to the United States, where he remained free from legal consequences and unrepentant for his crime.
In 2009, while visiting Switzerland, he was seized by Swiss authorities, who, unlike the French, were unwilling to protect a pedophile just to stick it to the United States. He will soon be returned to the US to pay for his despicable actions.
Polanski is a prime example of Hollywood values and more than 100 film industry figures have signed a petition calling for the release of Polanski. [3]