Film director Roman Polanski has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit related to the alleged sexual assault of a minor, Variety and French publication Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June 2023, and was scheduled to go to trial in August 2025. His lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, told AFP on Tuesday that the case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed.
” The woman’s attorney, Gloria Allred, confirmed to Variety that “a settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction.” In the suit, the woman identified as Jane Doe claimed that she met Polanski at a party in 1973 when she was a minor. She alleged she met him a second time months later at his Benedict Canyon home in Southern California and that afterwards he took her to dinner, gave her shots of tequila, and brought her back to his house.
“Plaintiff remembers waking up in Defendant’s bed with him lying in the bed next to her,” the lawsuit stated. “He told her that he wanted to have sex with her. Plaintiff, though groggy, told Defendant ‘No.
’ She told him, ‘Please don’t do this.’” The woman came forward in 2017, identifying only as Robin M. at the time, and claimed during a press conference in Los Angeles that Polanski “sexually victimized” her when she was 16-years-old.
The woman said she told a friend about what happened “the day afte.