POLANSKI VICTIM WANTS CASE DROPPED

The woman raped by director Roman Polanski when she was 13 wants the 32-year-old case dropped because it is making her ill.
Samantha Geimer also says her job is a risk because of the pressure she has been under since the 76-year-old Oscar winner was arrested in Switzerland facing possible extradition.
In a court filing asking a California appeals court to dismiss the case, her lawyer, Lawrence Silver, said she has received nearly 500 requests for interviews, including calls from Larry King and Oprah Winfrey, and is being “stalked by journalists.”
He wrote: “The pursuit has caused her to have health-related issues. The pursuit has cause her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job.”
He pleaded: “Leave her alone.”
Polanski, whose films include Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist, met Geimer at a photoshoot and had sex with her after giving her champagne and part of a Quaalude pill.
He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse and was jailed for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation.
Released after 42 days, he fled the country the night before he was due to be sentenced, fearing the judge was going to renege on a deal he made with prosecutors to spare him a long sentence.
He has lived in France for the last 30 years, is married to French actress Emanuelle Seigner, and has two children, Morgane, 16, and Elvis, 11.
He was arrested on September 26 and is in jail awaiting an extradition hearing.
Geimer, now 45 and a wife and mother of two living in Hawaii, sued Polanski for emotional distress in 1988.
She first asked the courts to drop the case in January, writing: “I have urged that this matter come to a formal legal end. I have urged that the district attorney and the court dismiss these charges.”