A Paris court on Tuesday acquitted filmmaker Roman Polanski in a defamation case brought by British actress Charlotte Lewis.
Lewis had claimed that Polanski raped her in the 1980s when she was a teen. Polanski refuted the accusation in a 2019 interview, telling the French magazine Paris Match, “The basic quality of a good liar is an excellent memory.”
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js/rt (dpa, Reuters)
