Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
by Geimer, Samantha
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In this searing and surprising memoir, Samantha Geimer, âÈêthe girlâÈë at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five-year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack NicholsonâÈçs house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from York, Pennsylvania. She is thirteen years old. The undisputed facts of what happened in the following hours appear in the court record: Polanski spent hours taking pictures of SamanthaâÈ'on a deck overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girlâÈçs life was altered foreverâÈ'eternally cast as a background player in her own story. For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media in the United States and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, much about that dayâÈ'and the girl at the center of it allâÈ'remains a mystery. Just about everyone had an opinion about the renowned director and the girl he was accused of drugging and raping. Who was the predator? Who was the prey? Was the girl an innocent victim or a cunning Lolita artfully directed by her ambitious stage mother? How could the criminal justice system have failed all the parties concerned in such a spectacular fashion? Once Polanski fled the country, what became of Samantha, the young girl forever associated with one of HollywoodâÈçs most notorious episodes? Samantha, as much as Polanski, has been a fugitive since the events of that night more than thirty years ago. Taking us far beyond the headlines, The Girl reveals a thirteen-year-old who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable. By telling her story in full for the first time, Samantha reclaims her identity, and indelibly proves that it is possible to move forward from victim to survivor, from confusion to certainty, from shame to strength.
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- Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
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- Geimer, Samantha
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- 1476716846
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- 9781476716848
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- Atria Books
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- 2014
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