Gore Vidal calls Polanski's sex victim a young hooker
News
ani-Staff
London,
(ANI):
Noted
writer
Gore
Vidal
has
come
under
fire
for
calling
Roman
Polanski's
teenaged
unlawful
sex
victim
a
'young
hooker'.
Polanski
is
currently
battling
his
extradition
to
the
US
after
Swiss
authorities
in
Zurich
arrested
him
last
month.
The
Rosemary's
Baby
director
had
accepted
to
charges
of
having
illegal
intercourse
with
13-year-old
Samantha
Gailey
(now
Samantha
Geimer)
in
the
late
1970s
and
had
fled
to
France
in
1978
before
he
could
be
sentenced.
Vidal
frequented
similar
Hollywood
circles
during
Polanski's
crime
and
the
83-year-old
litterateur
has
a
different
take
on
the
whole
issue.
"I
really
don't
give
a
f***," Sky
News
quoted
him
as
telling
The
Atlantic
mag.
"Look,
am
I
going
to
sit
and
weep
every
time
a
young
hooker
feels
as
though
she's
been
taken
advantage
of?"
He
added:
"Anti-Semitism
got
poor
Polanski.
He
was
also
a
foreigner.
He
did
not
subscribe
to
American
values
in
the
least.
To
(his
persecutors),
that
seemed
vicious
and
unnatural."
A
writer
of
the
Atlantic
mag
was
so
annoyed
at
the
author's
remarks
that
he
posted
comments
on
Vidal
on
a
blog,
dubbing
him
'vile
as
ever.'