OpinionBy 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.
8 comments:
There is a lynch mob mentality in the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office presently which has been in operation a few years. It was certainly present in their criminal case against Phil Spector.
The lynch mob mentality is assisted in California by allowing Los Angeles prosecutors to dig up and use all your ex-girlfriends or boyfriends or acquaintances against you, and if any happen to say that you pointed a gun at their head 20 years ago. The Los Angeles prosecutors can use that witness information against you at any time, even if not true.
The logic of the Los Angeles Courts allowing all these witnesses to crap royally on you is faulty, since witness testimony is driven by many things that does not always include the truth, and 5 people saying you pointed a gun at their head twenty years ago does nothing to prove you in fact killed someone with a gun in February 2003. But it will certainly help a naïve jury to bring in their guilty verdict.
And it is also true to say that 5 witnesses who did not witness any murder, does not and should not prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In addition and not to forget that the Star witness for the prosecution in Phil Spector’s case Brazilian Chauffeur Adriano De Souza was paid handsomely for his witness testimony by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office with a US residency and forgiving De Souza’s crime that he was illegally working in U.S.A. which makes De Souza’s testimony less credible.
In Polanski’s case - never mind Allred's motivation. Put up a press camera and Charlotte Lewis will come, especially if the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office pays her for “witness” services.
So perhaps someone paid Charlotte Lewis to come to Los Angeles, even though the press or her lawyer made a point of saying that Charlotte had flown to Los Angeles on her own dime. But Charlotte is useful as a star witness against Roman Polanski so that the Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley can nail a stale crime against Polanski, and use Polanski’s demise to become the next Attorney General of California.
And would Charlotte pay her own fare to Los Angeles to meet the L.A.D.A.?
If Charlotte did not have sex with Roman Polanski for nothing, and gained fame and her fortune by remaining silent as to her distaste of the sexual encounter, she laid her bed so to speak
by the same token - through her lack of silence now perhaps she is being paid or hopes to be paid in some way.
Congratulations, Anonymous!
You've found your inner Lynchness Monster!
Dear Anon:
The has-been actresses (contradictory) account(s) [did not have sex with Polanski but wanted to; she "seduced" Polanski, but not in 1983 when she was 16, it was in 1984 when she was 17; Polanski "took advantage of her"] are NOT admissible in any California Polanski trial or sentencing hearing:
1. The alleged did-not-have-sex; did-but-I-seduced-him; the-beast-took-advantage (take your pick) story of the "victim" POST DATED the charged offense and is therefore not relevant;
2. Even if she did testify she is so incredible that it would HELP Polanski for the prosecution to call the woman;
3. For reason #1 the prosecution is not even going to TRY TO CALL HER AS A WITNESS;
4. Where did you say you have received your past psychiatric treatment?
Blogo 4 naught
Your Post is impossible to understand and abusive.
We find the point to be crystal clear.
Abusive to whom?
The has-been gold digger or GA--the most annoying person in the universe?
You know, Anon, you really seem to have a problem staying on-topic. What does Phil Spector's trials have to do with Roman Polanski, other than that they took place in LA? She seem somewhat off-center to me. Perhaps you need to take some time off and reflect on what is REALLY bothering you and then check back in. See what the silence says to you...
Anon, it’s time to take your meds. In the future, wash your meds down with milk.
I also hear a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down as well. See how simple life can be?
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