A hearing has been scheduled for next month in director Roman Polanski's effort to win dismissal of the 1977 sexual assault case that led to his arrest in September.
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, Swiss authorities said Friday.
A Swiss court has refused a request from director Roman Polanski to be released on bail pending an extradition battle, saying he poses a high flight risk, according to court documents.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bern, Switzerland, formally submitted an extradition request for Roman Polanski to the Swiss government on Thursday night, but a lawyer for the film director said his client will continue to resist deportation.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bern, Switzerland, formally submitted an extradition request for Roman Polanski to the Swiss government on Thursday night, but a lawyer for the film director said his client will continue to resist deportation.
Despite recent reports, a lawyer for the director says his client will continue to resist deportation
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, Swiss authorities said Friday.
The imprisoned director may give up his fight against extradition, says attorney
A Swiss court has refused a request from director Roman Polanski to be released on bail pending an extradition battle, saying he poses a high flight risk, according to court documents.
The director, jailed in Switzerland, is suffering from an undisclosed ailment
A hearing has been scheduled for next month in director Roman Polanski's effort to win dismissal of the 1977 sexual assault case that led to his arrest in September.
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, Swiss authorities said Friday.
A Swiss court has refused a request from director Roman Polanski to be released on bail pending an extradition battle, saying he poses a high flight risk, according to court documents.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bern, Switzerland, formally submitted an extradition request for Roman Polanski to the Swiss government on Thursday night, but a lawyer for the film director said his client will continue to resist deportation.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bern, Switzerland, formally submitted an extradition request for Roman Polanski to the Swiss government on Thursday night, but a lawyer for the film director said his client will continue to resist deportation.
Despite recent reports, a lawyer for the director says his client will continue to resist deportation
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, Swiss authorities said Friday.
The imprisoned director may give up his fight against extradition, says attorney
A Swiss court has refused a request from director Roman Polanski to be released on bail pending an extradition battle, saying he poses a high flight risk, according to court documents.
The director, jailed in Switzerland, is suffering from an undisclosed ailment
The arrest warrant used to detain filmmaker Roman Polanski in Switzerland was valid, the Swiss Justice Ministry said Tuesday, making clear it will fight the director's appeal against his detention over a 1977 sex case.
Roman Polanski in 1993 agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a damage claim she filed against the fugitive film director, according to court papers released Friday.
California's Governor will not use his power to clear the fugitive filmmaker of rape conviction
A retired prosecutor whose comments in a 2008 HBO documentary threatened to derail a 31-year-old sex case against film director Roman Polanski now says he lied.
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When filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday in Switzerland, he was on his way to accept an award for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich Film Festival.
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Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have "demanded the immediate release" of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge.
The events of a single afternoon when she was 13 years old have haunted Samantha Geimer her entire life. A famous movie director allegedly gave her champagne and had sex with her.
Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died, according to a California corrections spokesman. She was 61.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over the weekend, will fight extradition to the United States where he faces sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, his California lawyers said Monday.
Roman Polanski is regarded as one of the finest directors of his generation, winning an Oscar for "The Pianist" and nominations for "Tess" and "Rosemary's Baby," but he is probably as equally well known for his own tumultuous life.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old arrest warrant stemming from a sex charge in California, Swiss police said Sunday.
The director expected to be awarded, not arrested, at Zurich's film fest
Police have confirmed the Polish-born actor was taken into custody in Switzerland
Former "Manson Family" member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and now is terminally ill, was denied parole Wednesday, prison officials said.
The woman who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death will be considered for parole from prison a month after the 40th anniversary of the killings that cast a shadow of fear over southern California.
As 74-year-old Manson strums his guitar in prison, one of his followers - Squeaky Fromme - is set for release
The original judge has been dead for 15 years, and no one has been able to find the criminal case file since 2004. Yet a 1977 sex scandal involving famed director Roman Polanski and a 13-year-old girl continues to stalk the courts of Los Angeles.
A California appellate court Monday rejected Roman Polanski's motion to disqualify all Los Angeles Superior Court judges in the Oscar-winning director's efforts to have a 32-year-old sex offense case dropped, according to a court spokeswoman.
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski's efforts to have his 31-year-old sex case dismissed have been delayed by a last-minute appeal.
The question of Jewish resistance to the Nazis -- or the lack of it -- has loomed large ever since the true extent of the horrors of the Holocaust became impossible to ignore.
The alleged victim in a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski has filed court papers seeking dismissal of the charges against him.
Oscar-winning director Claude Berri died Monday in a Paris hospital, according to a statement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office.
Attorneys for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside Los Angeles be assigned to decide a motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
Attorneys for Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski are asking a California court to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
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On the face of it, Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist," with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, is in the tradition of every faithful "Oliver Twist" ever filmed -- a photogenic, straightforward, CliffsNotes staging of Charles Dickens' harrowing story about a penniless orphan negotiating among cruel and occasionally good adults in a world that has no time for children, and even less for penniless orphans.
Roman Polanski's libel action against the publishers of Vanity Fair magazine began at London's High Court on Monday -- with the Oscar-winning film director giving evidence from Paris.
Before there was Stephen King, there was Ira Levin.
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