Samantha Geimer was the victim in the Roman Polanski rape case 30 years ago. Roman Polanski is now trying to appeal the guilty verdict and return from exile.
The 13-year-old girl was s-exually exploited by the film director in the Los Angeles home of his friend, the actor Jack Nicholson, after he promised to help realise her modelling ambitions.
Polanksi, then 43, had been introduced to the teenager by her mother. He claimed that he wanted to feature the girl in an edition of French Vogue which he had been asked to guest edit.
During their first photoshoot at her home in February 1977 Polanski shocked Geimer by asking to take pictures while she undressed.
Despite her daughter's discomfort at the request, the girl's mother let her accompany the director to a private photo shoot two weeks later.
Polanski broke his pledge to bring along one of Geimer's friends as a chaperone, driving her directly - and alone - to Nicholson's palatial home in the hills of Los Angeles.
Nicholson was away on a skiing holiday, leaving Polanski free to ply the 13-year-old with glass after glass of champagne.
As the alcohol took effect he suggested that Geimer remove her clothes for a series of photos in a hot tub, where he made his first s-exual approach.
"That was when it turned. He said 'come here', put his arm around me and touched me on the shoulders," she explained later.
Geimer struggled to break free but was unable to resist his advances after he gave her the powerful sedative Quaalude, which he claimed would help ease her asthma.
After having s-ex with the girl in a bedroom, Polanksi made her promise not to tell her mother about their "little secret".
Geimer, who is now 45, subsequently sued the film director and won an undisclosed settlement. The married mother-of-three has moved to Hawaii to escape press attention, and recently gave her backing Polanski's campaign to have criminal proceedings dropped.
"I am no longer a 13-year-old child. I have dealt with the difficulties of being a victim," she said in January this year.
