Slate Magazine: 'Woman Raped By Roman Polanski Will Write Book'

Source:Slate Magazine- Samantha Geiner writing a book at her time with filmmaker Roman Polamski

"Samantha Geimer is tired of being pegged as Hollywood's "sex victim girl." The 47-year-old became famous in 1977 as the 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by director Roman Polanski. After years of largely shunning the press, Geimer has decided to pen a book about her abuse and the lifelong ordeal that followed.

"I have been dogged by tired thinking and easy tags nearly my entire life," Geimer said on her decision to write the book, due out in fall 2013. "I know what it is like to be a woman and a victim in the realest possible way."

Polanski fled the country in 1978 when it appeared a judge would reject his plea bargain in the case, and he hasn't returned. Los Angeles prosecutors tried and failed to have him extradited from Switzerland in 2009. Geimer now lives in Hawaii and has three children." 

From Slate Magazine

There might be some movie that Roman Polanski is known for making in America. But if you look at his life and career, there are really two true stories in life that will always be part of his legacy, if not the main part of his life and legacy. He's the husband of actress Sharon Tate who was murdered by the Manson Family in Los Angeles in 1969. And he's known for sexually assaulting a 13 year girl in 1977 and then fleeing the United States because the judge in that case wouldn't accept the plea bargain that his attorney worked out for him with the district attorney. That's certainly not a legacy that I would want.