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Excerpt From Vanity Fair Article About Roman PolanskiVanity Fair "The thing about Elaine's", says Lewis Lapham, "is that nobody will allow himself to be impressed by anybody. You could say, 'I just sold 17,000 copies of my book today,' and they'd ask you what you did yesterday. The only time I ever saw people gasp at Elaine's was when Roman Polanski walked in just after his wife Sharon Tate had been viciously murdered by the Manson clan. I was sitting at a table with a friend of mine who had brought the most gorgeous Swedish girl you ever laid eyes on. I don't think I have ever seen a more beautiful woman. Polanski came over and asked to join us. It turned out that Polanski has been in London when the atrocity took place, and he was on his way back to Hollywood for the burial. The Swedish beauty was sitting next to me. Polanski pulled up a chair and inserted himself between us, immediately focusing himself on the beauty, inundating her with his Polish charm. Fascinated by his performance, I watched as he slid his hand inside her thigh and began a long, honeyed spiel which ended with the promise 'And I will make another Sharon Tate out of you'".
Note from CharlieManson.com: Roman Polanski sued Vanity Fair over the story quoted above. It is our opinion and understanding that Polanski did NOT stopover during his flight to Los Angeles. July 2005 Update: At trial, Vanity Fair admitted that the supposed incident did not happen during the trip from London to the funeral, but they did claim it happened shortly afterward. The boyfriend of the model testified that she told him it happened. Actress Mia Farrow, who was present, testified that it didn't. Roman won the case and was awarded 50,000 pounds by the English court (about $87,000 American dollars). |
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