French-Polish director Roman Polanski will not face trial over an alleged sexual assault of a minor after reaching a settlement, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The case has been withdrawn, and settlement has been reached, instead of going on in Los Angeles in August 2025.
The case was “settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed”.
The suit, filed last year, claimed Polanski took an anonymously-named then-teenager to dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles in 1973. He allegedly gave her tequila, and when she began to feel dizzy, drove her to his home, where he forced himself on her, ignoring her pleas.
The civil suit, which sought unspecified damages, was filed in June 2023, just before the expiration of a California law that allowed for an extended window for claims against the alleged perpetrators of sexual crimes.
Court papers filed in California in July said a “conditional” accord had been reached.
Allred said in an email late Tuesday that “a settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction.”
Polanski is now 91: hailed by some for his sensitive films and condemned by others for his bad behavior.
In another case, Polanski admitted to the statutory rape of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in a plea bargain in 1977 to avoid a trial on more serious charges. But he fled to France the following year, after serving 42 days in jail, when it appeared a judge was reconsidering his release.
But Geimer has subsequently defended Polanski, and was photographed with him last year.
What’s more, French court in May acquitted Polanski of defaming actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager.
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