Fighting fugitive film director Roman Polanski’s legal efforts for reinstatement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told a judge Polanski got an opportunity to fight his expulsion from the academy – which still voted to expel him afterward by a two-thirds supermajority.
Read moreThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sponsor of the Oscar awards, voted this week to oust Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski as members.
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A California judge on Friday rejected fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski’s latest effort to have his 40-year-old rape case dismissed.
Read moreAnother woman came forward Tuesday claiming that fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski “sexually victimized” her in Southern California when she was 16 years old.
Read moreA Los Angeles judge has rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court.
Read moreFilmmaker Roman Polanski’s defense attorney asked a state court judge on Monday to lift a warrant to allow Polanski to return to the United States in order to seek a sentence of time served for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Read morePoland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States.
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