Lewis was pictured breaking down in the courthouse following the verdict. Polanski was not in court for the verdict at the Paris criminal court on TuesdayBritish actress Charlotte Lewis broke down in a French courthouse today after losing a defamation case against Roman Polanski after accusing the filmmaker of raping her as a teenager and then waging 'smear campaign' against her.
The verdict by this court, which specialises in media cases, relates strictly to the charge of defamation and not over the actor's rape accusation against Polanski. The filmmaker, whose titles include the Oscar-winning 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Chinatown' and 'The Pianist', did not attend any hearings of the trial.
Lewis in 2010 accused Polanski of abusing her 'in the worst possible way' as a 16-year-old in 1983 in Paris after she travelled there for a casting sessionAccording to Paris Match, he pulled out a copy of a 1999 article in now-defunct British tabloid newspaper News of the World, and quoted Lewis as saying in it: 'I wanted to be his lover.'She filed a complaint for defamation, and the film director was automatically charged under French law.
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