Swiss cabinet-level minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf leaves a press conference in Berne, Monday, July 12, 2010 where she declared that renowned film director Roman Polanski willl be a free man after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus )
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ARCHIV - British actress Charlotte Lewis (R) and her attorney Gloria Allred speak to the media during a press conferenceria Allre in Los Angeles, California, USA 14 May 2010. During the press conference, Lewis accused director French-born Roman Polanski of sexual conduct with her when she was 16 years old on the set of the 1986 film Pirates in which she made her film debut. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
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Der Regisseur Roman Polanski und seine Frau Emmanuelle Seigner, aufgenommen am Sonntag (10.12.2006) in Berlin im Theater des Westens bei einer Pause der Premiere des Musicals "Tanz der Vampire". Zahlreiche deutsche Prominente waren zur Premiere des "Grusicals" gekommen. Foto: Johannes Eisele dpa/lbn +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
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A man showing a "Free Polanski" sticker is waiting for the Filmfestival in Zurich, Switzerland, 27 September 2009. US film director Roman Polanski should have been awarded tonight with the "Golden Eye Award" for his lifework, but he was arrested 26 September by Swiss police as he flew in for the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski will face possible extradition to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. EPA/ENNIO LEANZA +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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