He recently admitted to child rape but says "it's over," as if self-pronouncing an end to the saga is all that matters.

"Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival, Roman Polanski made a rare comment on the rape conviction that caused him to flee the United States. Polanski was arrested and charged with raping Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time, in 1977. In a plea bargain, the director pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but fled to Paris when he heard the judge was considering giving him 50 years in prison.
“As you know, Samantha Geimer has been asking for over 30 years for this thing to end. But, I’m sorry the judges who dealt with it the last 40 years were corrupted, one covering for the other … maybe one of them will (eventually) stop doing it,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “As far as what I did: It’s over. I pleaded guilty. I went to jail. I came back to the United States to do it, people forget about that, or don’t even know. I then was locked up here (in Zurich) after this festival. So in the sum, I did about 4 or 5 times than what was promised to me,” Polanksi said."

He's a fugitive from the law in the United States and hasn't been able to set foot on U.S. soil in decades, for fear of being immediately arrested, yet he's lived the good life in Europe and elsewhere and is even mightily applauded for his art in Hollywood, where's he's received standing ovations from a galaxy of Tinseltown stars, producers and directors.

He's actually a child rapist. But he's an artist, and one of the kindred spirits in the "artist" community in Hollywood, so he gets a free pass from them, I suppose.

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