New York Daily News

Let case go: Polanski vic

- Nancy Dillon

ROMAN POLANSKI’S statutory rape victim asked a Los Angeles judge to end his 40-year-old sex case Friday.

Samantha Geimer, 54, told the judge she supports either an outright dismissal or a hearing that would sentence Polanski, 83, without his having to appear in person.

“I was not as traumatize­d as everybody thought I should have been,” Geimer told reporters outside court, according to Deadline.com. “I was a young and sexually active teenager,” she said.

Geimer was 13 years old in 1978 when Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a sedative pill and had sex with her during a photo shoot he said he was doing for French Vogue.

Polanski’s lawyer Harland Braun told the Daily News on Friday that the famed “Chinatown” director wants the matter resolved so he can travel freely in Europe and visit his late wife Sharon Tate’s gravesite in Culver City, Calif.

Tate was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969, at the age of just 26. She was 8½ months pregnant with Polanski’s child.

Tate’s sister Debra told The News she hopes the judge will resolve the case so Polanski can join her for a visit to the cemetery.

“Sharon was not only a loving wife to him, but that is his child in that grave. That is something people need to remember in this case,” Tate said.

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