A defamation trial against controversial director Roman Polanski is currently underway in Paris. The 90-year-old Franco-Polish filmmaker is facing a lawsuit from British actor Charlotte Lewis, who alleges that he defamed her by dismissing her sexual assault accusations as a 'heinous lie' in a 2019 interview with Paris Match magazine.
Lewis first came forward with her allegations against Polanski in 2010, claiming that the director sexually assaulted her in Paris in 1983 when she was 16 years old. She recounted traveling to Paris for a casting call and later appearing in Polanski's 1986 movie 'Pirates.'
