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A woman who was raped by the film director Roman Polanski is reportedly set to ask a court to end the 40 year old case against him, it has emerged.

Samantha Geimer, who was just 13 years old when Polanski admitted having sexually assaulted her in Los Angeles back in 1977, is set to appear at a court hearing in Los Angeles on Friday (June 9th) and plead to an end to the case, according to Polanski’s attorney in a report by Reuters.

“Samantha Geimer is tired of this. She has been asking the court to terminate this case for years. She wants to get it over with,” the 83 year old director’s attorney, Harland Braun, told the news agency on Thursday.

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Filmmaker Roman Polanski is reportedly seeking to return to the United States on the condition of a successful plea deal that will see him serve no further jail time over a historic underage sex conviction.

The 83 year old director, who won awards and acclaim for Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist, has been a fugitive from the United States for nearly four decades, living between France and Poland in the intervening time. However, his attorney Harland Braun has suggested that he has reached a plea deal with American authorities that will keep him out of prison.

Roman Polanski pictured in 2013

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Roman Polanski has resigned his position as the president of next month’s Cesar Awards in France, following an outcry from feminist groups in the country in the wake of his appointment, according to a statement from the director’s lawyer.

The 83 year old was announced as the head of the board for the Cesar Awards, France’s most prestigious film awards body, last week as a recognition of his past achievements at the awards. He had won Best Director four times between 1979 and 2014.

Roman Polanski has backed out of his role as president of the Cesar Awards

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Samantha Geimer, the woman at the centre of the Roman Polanski sex scandal, is planning to publish her memoirs, revealing her side of the story. Reuters reports that Geimer, 47, will be publishing THE GIRL: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski in 2013, via Atria Books – an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In 1977, Roman Polanski – the director of movies such as Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown was arrested in Los Angeles and indicted for six counts, including Geimer’s rape. She was 13 at the time that the incident is alleged to have happened.

At the time, Polanski accepted a plea bargain of guilty. However, when he suspected that the judge was going to serve him with a sentence longer than the time he had already served, he fled the USA. Years later, Geimer sued Polanski for sexual assault and emotional distress; they eventually settled that lawsuit. Geimer hopes that in writing and publishing her account of what happened, she can reclaim some of her sense of self. “I offer my story now without rage, but with purpose - to share a tale that in its detail will reclaim my identity," Geimer said a statement to the press. "I am more than ‘Sex Victim Girl,’ she added. Lawrence Silver, Samantha Geimer’s attorney, will also contribute to the book.

Roman Polanski has continued to direct movies. Now aged 79, he recently directed Carnage and The Ghost Writer. In a documentary made last year, he apologized to Samantha, saying that she was both a victim of his and of the press.