Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski, 71 is suing Conde Naste, publishers of Vanity Fair, over a July 2002 article.
According to the magazine, 35 years ago Polanski has made sexual advances to a "Swedish beauty" in Elaine's restaurant from New York, just after his wife, actress Sharon Tate, had been killed by Charles Manson's "Family".

Polanski, who is currently living in Paris, will give evidence in a London libel case via video link. According to the February ruling of the Law Lords, Mr Polanski should not be denied access to justice because of extradition fears.

This way, the director will avoid extradition to the US, where he is still wanted on an outstanding child sex offence. Roman Polanski hasn't traveled to the US for 25 years, after he had admitted having sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl.

The Polish director is a French citizen and cannot be extradited to the US from France, but if he were to travel to UK, he wouldn't have the same protection.

Polanski's video testimony will be the first one in the history of the English trials.

Actress Mia Farrow and Debra Tate, the sister of the director's first wife, Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant when she was murdered in 1969, are called as witnesses.

Famous filmmaker Roman Polanski was awarded an Oscar for The Pianist in 2003, after his earlier nominations for Chinatown (1974) and Tess (1979), and a best adapted screenplay nomination for Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Polanski has recently completed his latest project, Oliver Twist, an adaptation of the classic Dickens story of the orphan who meets a pickpocket on the streets of London and then joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Roman Polanski

Actor Filmography

The Revenge (2002)
Light Keeps Me Company (2001)
Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974)
Back in the USSR (1992)
A Generation (1954)
Diary of Forbidden Dreams (1973)
Confessions of a Blue Movie Star (1970)
Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
Intimate Portrait - Mia Farrow (1998)
Chinatown (1974)
The Tenant (1976)
Fearless Vampire Killers Or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)
A Pure Formality (1995)
Dance of the Vampires Musical
He has directed this play in Europe

Director Filmography

Oliver Twist (2005)
The Pianist (2002)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Frantic (1987)
Macbeth (1971)
Pirates (1986)
Repulsion (1965)
Diary of Forbidden Dreams (1973)
Bitter Moon (1994)
Mammals (1963)
Cul-de-Sac (1966)
The Fat and the Lean (1964)
Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)
Death and the Maiden (1995)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Chinatown (1974)
Knife in the Water (1962)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Tenant (1976)
Tess (1980)
Fearless Vampire Killers Or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)

Producer Filmography

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Writer Filmography
Pirates (1986)
Repulsion (1965)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Tenant (1976)

Crew Filmography

Macbeth - Screenplay (1971)
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