This mofo….
Oscar-winning child predator Roman Polanski has enlisted the help of the world’s most powerful man in a last ditch effort to battle extradition on his 33-year-old stautory rape charge: He’s written a letter to President Barack Obama, according to French tabloid L’Express.
How dare he drag Barry into this!
The Chinatown director is currently under house arrest in Switzerland as prosecutors in California attempt to force him back to the United States (rightfully so, might I add) to face sentencing for drugging and raping a 13-year-old aspiring model in 1977.
Several high-profile Hollywood figures have already spoken out in support of Polanski, now he’s hoping the US president will keep him out of jail. According to L’Express, President Nicolas Sarkozy – who is backing Polanski’s bid for freedom – “played the postman” and delivered Polanski’s handwritten note to Obama earlier this month.
“In an astonishing act of backroom diplomacy, Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivered a letter from Roman Polanski to Barack Obama last week on the sidelines of the anti-nuclear proliferation summit in Washington.”
Polanski fled to France in 1978 after pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful sex with a minor. He was arrested by Swiss officials last September after arriving in the country to attend a film festival in Zurich. This week, a California judge torpedoed an effort by the victim, now a mother in her forties, to have the case thrown out.