Fourth Woman Accuses Roman Polanski Of Sexually Assaulting Her As A Teenager

Yet another woman has come forward to accuse Roman Polanski of sexually assaulting her while she was a teenager.

Renate Langer, a former German actress, reported to Swiss police last week that Polanski had sexually assaulted her in 1972 when she was 15 years old, the New York Times reports. Langer alleges that Polanski, whom she met while working as a model in high school, raped her on two separate occasions at his homes in Gstaad and Rome. Langer, now 61, stated in an interview that she thought Switzerland's elimination of a statute of limitations on child sex abuses would allow her complaint to be investigated, but found that the law applied only to cases more recent than hers.

In addition to Langer and Samantha Geimer, two other women—British actress Charlotte Lewis and a woman who identified herself solely as Robin M.—have alleged that Polanski sexually assaulted them when they were 13 and 16 years old, respectively. "I'm speaking out now so that Samantha and the world will know that she is not the only minor Roman Polanski victimized," Robin said when she made her allegations public at a press conference in August. Two months later, Langer told the New York Times that her decision to speak out against Polanski was partly inspired by Robin's statement.

Polanski, now 83, has been living in Europe ever since he famously fled Los Angeles prior to his sentencing for the rape of Geimer in 1979, and has yet to respond to Langer's allegation. Luckily for Polanski, there's no reason to believe a fourth accusation of sexual assault against a teenage girl will get in the way of his flourishing film career.