According to Splash News, French President Nicholas Sarkozy "hand-delivered" a letter to President Barak Obama, possibly saying something along the lines of: 'Aaah, give that statutory rapist an easy time, he's old and it happened aaages ago, and according to Whoopie Goldberg, "it's not rape-rape". And he's a director, that's cool! I know The Ghost is getting a luke warm response, but the man's going through a hard time already.' Yep, something along those lines. Here are some actual details:
"The Daily Beast website claims a French political magazine has published a report stating that Polanski made the private plea for clemency. The website writes: 'In an astonishing act of backroom international diplomacy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivered a letter from fugitive Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to President Barack Obama last week on the sidelines of the international anti-nuke proliferation summit in Washington, according to a small and little-noticed article embedded in the prestigious French political magazine, L'Express.'"
Nice to hear the world's leaders are multitasking during those pesky routine anti-nuke summits.
The article continues with: "It is unclear exactly what the letter says (please see article's opening paragraph) or asks for, but Polanski has previously acknowledged giving a Quaalude and champagne to a 13-year-old girl he then sexually assaulted. Polanski, who is currently under house arrest at his chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, is still facing the charges from 1977, as US authorities currently seek his extradition to America. The letter, which is not directly quoted in the L'Express article, is said to suggest that the two months the aging director spent in a Swiss prison, in addition to the 47 days that he spent in detention in California in 1977, should suffice for the crime of unlawful sexual intercourse he pled guilty to."
I could repeat everything I said last September, but what's the point.
