French ex-actress Valentine Monnier accuses Roman Polanski of raping her at Swiss ski resort when she was a teen
- Director ‘pommelled her until she gave in’, says Monnier, who decided to speak out as Polanski’s new film about error of justice was about to be released
- Account is latest allegation against Polanski, who fled to France from US in 1978 after admitting to statutory rape of 13-year-old girl
A French former actress and model on Friday accused film director Roman Polanski, whose new film on the persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus premieres next week, of raping her in a Swiss ski resort when she was a teenager.
It is the latest accusation against the 86-year-old Polish-born director who fled to France in 1978 from the US after admitting the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Valentine Monnier told Le Parisien newspaper that the alleged rape occurred in 1975 when she was 18 at Polanski’s chalet in Gstaad.
“I had no links with him, neither personal nor professional, and hardly knew him,” said Monnier, a former model who worked in New York.
She said the alleged rape was “extremely violent”, adding: “He pummelled me until I gave in and then raped me, making me do all sorts of things.”