LA prosecutor meets with actress who claims Polanski molested her during filming in 1982

DA meets actress who claims Polanski molested her

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors have met with a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 in Paris.

Forty-two-year-old Charlotte Lewis, speaking at a news conference Friday in Los Angeles, says Polanski abused her in 1982, four years before she appeared in Polanski’s “Pirates” film.

District attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons acknowledges Lewis met with a prosecutor handling Polanski’s 33-year-old sex case involving another girl. Gibbons would not comment further.

Lewis’ attorney Gloria Allred says she hopes her client’s allegations will affect sentencing for Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland and is fighting extradition. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to France.

Polanski’s attorney Chad Hummel was not immediately available for comment.

(This version CORRECTS that alleged abuse took place four years before “Pirates” film.)