Summary
Roman Polanski won pounds 50,000 damages yesterday in a historic libel action which forced him to relive the time of the horrific murder of wife Sharon Tate 36 years ago.
The 71-year-old film director sued over a July 2002 Vanity Fair story which said that he made a pass at a woman - model Beatte Telle - in Elaine's restaurant in New York, just after the August 1969 tragedy.See the full content of this document
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Polanski Wins 'Lurid' Libel Case
Tate, a 26-year-old actress, who was eight months pregnant, died with four others at her Californian home at the hands of Charles Manson's 'Family'.
John Kelsey-F...See the full content of this document
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