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22/07/2005
Polanski awarded £50,000 in libel case
Roman Polanski has been awarded £50,000 libel damages after a claim was made by Vanity Fair magazine that he tried to seduce a woman days after his wife's brutal murder.
Polanski sued Conde Nast, the magazine's US based publisher, who admitted the article was not accurate, but claimed it did hold some truth.
Polanski said: "Three years of my life have been interrupted. Three years within which I have had no choice but to relive the horrible events of August 1969, the murders of my wife, my unborn child and my friends."
His wife, Sharon Tate, was killed by followers of Charles Manson in Los Angeles.
Mia Farrow, who starred in his film 'Rosemary's Baby' defended Polanski in the case, she testified that she met Polanski at a restaurant two weeks after Tate's death.
"He started telling me about events in California, what he had gone through, and he got very, very upset," said Farrow. "He had ordered our dinner, but we just left the restaurant. He was that upset, and I, too."
Polanski called the article "an abominable lie" and said that it dishonoured his memory of Sharon. (CD/GB)
Polanski sued Conde Nast, the magazine's US based publisher, who admitted the article was not accurate, but claimed it did hold some truth.
Polanski said: "Three years of my life have been interrupted. Three years within which I have had no choice but to relive the horrible events of August 1969, the murders of my wife, my unborn child and my friends."
His wife, Sharon Tate, was killed by followers of Charles Manson in Los Angeles.
Mia Farrow, who starred in his film 'Rosemary's Baby' defended Polanski in the case, she testified that she met Polanski at a restaurant two weeks after Tate's death.
"He started telling me about events in California, what he had gone through, and he got very, very upset," said Farrow. "He had ordered our dinner, but we just left the restaurant. He was that upset, and I, too."
Polanski called the article "an abominable lie" and said that it dishonoured his memory of Sharon. (CD/GB)
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