Ringo Starr, center, arrives with his wife, Maureen, and Roman Polanski at the Festival Palace in Cannes, France. They were attending the screening of the British entry “Joanna” in the Cannes Film Festival. (Raoul Fornezza / Associated Press)
Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, Barbi Benton, center, and Polanski arrive in Paris. The woman at left is unidentified. (Michel Lipchitz / Associated Press)
Polanski arrives at the California Institution for Men in Chino, where he was sent for a 90-day psychiatric study. He was released after 42 days and then left the country before his case was resolved.(Nick Ut / Associated Press)
Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband talks with journalists about the Polanski case. (George Brich / Associated Press)
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Samantha Geimer, Polanski’s victim, shown in 1997, eventually supported dropping the charges. On a TV show she repeated what she told the grand jury, saying she was crying and begging him to stop. But she added that he “wasn’t forceful or mean or anything like that” and said: “It wasn’t rape.” (Lynne Zuckerman / Associated Press)
Polanski and Mira Sorvino at a party in Cannes for the about-to-film “The Ninth Gate,” which was released in 1999. (Ari Mintz / For The Times)
Polanski celebrates in 2002 after “The Pianist” won the Palme d’Or, the highest award given to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. (Olivier Laban-Mattei / AFP/Getty Images)
Polanski, in 2008, at the screening of Oliver Stone’s “W” in Turin, Italy. (Massimo Pinca / Associated Press)
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In February 2009, Polanski was on Sylt, a German island in the North Sea, directing “The Ghost.” (George Supanz / EPA)
A view of Polanski’s chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)
Polanski was temporarily held in this facility in Zurich while fighting extradition to the United States. (Sebastian Derungs / AFP/Getty Images)
Protesters gather at the New York Film Festival to speak out against supporters of Polanski. (Charles Sykes / Associated Press)
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A man holds a sticker reading “Free Polanski” at the Zurich Film Festival. Swiss police arrested Roman Polanski on Sept. 26, 2009, when he arrived in Switzerland to attend the festival, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award. (Ennio Leanza / Associated Press)
