New York Daily News

Another gal is ready to hit Polanski

- BY NANCY DILLON and LEONARD GREENE

A THIRD WOMAN came forward Tuesday to say she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was a minor, and is willing to testify if the fugitive is ever brought to trial.

The alleged victim, who only gave her name as Robin M., said Polanski molested her in 1973 when she was 16, and that she kept it to herself to protect her family.

“The day after it happened I did tell one friend what Mr. Polanski had done to me,” Robin M. said at a California news conference. “The reason, with this exception, I kept it to myself is that I didn’t want my father to do something that might cause him to go to prison for the rest of his life.”

In 1977, Polanski, then 43, was charged in Los Angeles with sex felony counts after he was accused of drugging and having sex with a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson’s house.

Polanski pleaded guilty two years later to one count of unlawful sexual intercours­e with a minor — Samantha Geimer — and sentenced to 90 days in prison, but fled to Europe before he was sentenced.

Polanski, 83, has lived outside the U.S. ever since.

Robin said she came forward after learning that Geimer urged the court in June to dismiss Polanski’s case.

British actress Charlotte Lewis also alleged that Polanski sexually abused her when she was a 16-year-old star in 1983 on the set of his movie “Pirates.”

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