Papers obtained by the Los Angeles Times newspaper suggest the director agreed to pay Samantha Geimer as part of a civil settlement after she filed suit against him in 1988, accusing the director of sexual assault, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and seduction.
In October 1993, Polanski agreed to pay Geimer $500,000 with interest, according to the settlement documents, and was given two years to pay up.
The papers suggest Geimer’s attorneys had to fight for the full settlement after the director missed the 1995 deadline. It is not made clear if Polanski paid up in full.
Geimer was just 13 when Polanski plied the aspiring model with alcohol and drugs and then had sex with her in a bedroom at his Chinatown star Jack Nicholson’s house.
Polanski was arrested in Los Angeles and pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, before fleeing to France in 1978.
On Saturday (26Sep09), he was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland in connection with the 31-year-old case and is now fighting extradition to the U.S.
