Chinatown (AFI Top 100 Films #21) - a podcast by Ira Heinichen, Joshua McClenney

Trigger warning: this podcast discusses sexual assault.

In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. As a result of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor. In 1978, after learning that the judge planned to reject his plea deal and impose a prison term instead of probation, he fled to Paris. A number of other women have later accused Polanski of raping them when they were teenagers. An Interpol red notice was issued for his arrest, and he rarely leaves France.

[courtesy of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_case]

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