Civil suit against Roman Polanski alleging 1973 child rape won't go to trial; settlement reached
LOS ANGELES " A civil lawsuit brought against Roman Polanski that alleged the filmmaker sexually assaulted a child in the 1970s " a separate case from his conviction for assaulting a 13-year-old girl " is set to be dismissed. This suit, which accused Polanski of giving a child alcohol and raping her at his Benedict Canyon home in 1973, had been set to go to trial next August. But now an ...