Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski has been accused for a second time of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
British actress Charlotte Lewis said the Oscar-winning director sexually molested her when she was 16,
just a few years after Polanski was charged in California with assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Charlotte Lewis
Polanski, 76, is under house arrest in Switzerland, facing extradition to the United States.
After pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse, he skipped out just before sentencing in 1978
and remained on the lam until Swiss authorities arrested him on Sept. 26.
Lewis, 42, said she decided to speak up because she heard that Polanski was fighting extradition.
The actress, who appeared in the 1986 Polanski film Pirates, said he molested her in his Paris apartment
in "the worst possible way," around 1982, the Associated Press reported.
"He took advantage of me and I have lived with the effects of his behavior ever since it occurred,"
said Lewis. "All I want is justice."
Lewis' lawyer, Gloria Allred, said the actress is ready to testify at any sentencing hearing for Polanski.
Polanski's U.S. legal team said it had no information about Lewis' allegations.
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