In the flat light of the grand-jury room, a nervous, deeply embarrassed year-old girl sat alone β no attor ney, no mother, no friend. He placed his mouth on my vagina. I was ready to cry. Come on. Stop it. The director said he had an assignment to photograph young girls for a Paris fashion magazine, Vogue Hommes, and had heard about Samantha from a mutual friend. Polanski went to her home on the afternoon of Feb. Polanski dropped Samantha off at her home a few hours later and went about his business.
The next night, a team of seven police investigators and prosecutors pulled up to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The lead detective, Philip Vannatter, spotted him and strode up, quietly saying he had a warrant for his arrest and needed to search his room. Polanski asked what the charge was. As they walked, the detective saw him pull what looked like a tablet out of his coat pocket and lower his cupped hand, as if he were going to drop it on the floor. In the suite, Vannatter and his team collected cameras, lenses, film, slides and negatives, and found a small vial of prescription quaaludes.
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The pills matched the one she described. A police criminalist could not find sperm in her underwear, but a chemical test indicated semen. The doctor who examined Samantha found no bruises or tearing, but would explain that this was common when no force was involved. Polanski brought a slide viewer from the car. Kim told her mother, who called the police. Samantha described Polanski taking more topless shots, pouring them champagne, then later offering her part of a quaalude.
She continued: He took a few pictures, then went into the bathroom and came back naked. He got into the deep part of the hot tub. So I finally went down. THE grand jury deliberated just 23 min utes. The panel returned with an in dictment of Polanski on six counts: furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, perversion, sodomy, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by use of drugs.
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Polanski pleaded not guilty on April 15, and the case was transferred to the Santa Monica courtroom of Judge Laurence J. Things were looking bleak for Polanski as well. Vogue Hommes denied that he had any assignment, according to his autobiography. Rittenband could sentence him to up to 50 years in prison, although no one expected that.
