Quentin Tarantino Says Roman Polanski’s 13-Year-Old Rape Victim ‘Wanted to Have It’
Article includes Samantha Geimer's grand jury testimony.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/02/06/flashback-tarantino-says-roman-polanskis-13-year-old-rape-victim-wanted/
During a 2003 interview with Howard Stern, not long after Hollywood awarded Polanski a Best Director Oscar and standing ovation for The Pianist, the shock jock asked Tarantino how Hollywood can embrace “this madman, this director who raped a 13-year-old.”
Tarantino: He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape…he had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down—it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word rape around. It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around. It doesn’t apply to everything people use it for. He was guilty of having sex with a minor.
Robin Quivers: That she didn’t want to have.
Tarantino: No, that was not the case AT ALL. She wanted to have it and dated the guy and—
Quivers: She was 13!
Tarantino: And by the way, we’re talking about America’s morals, not talking about the morals in Europe and everything.
Stern: Wait a minute. If you have sex with a 13-year-old girl and you’re a grown man, you know that that’s wrong.
Quivers: …giving her booze and pills…
Tarantino: Look, she was down with this.
At this point, things got impossibly worse…
Tarantino: She [the victim] has talked about it, ‘He didn’t really do anything to me. It was technicality about me being 13.’ … You’re killing him with the pills and booze thing.
Stern: But it’s true.
Tarantino: No more than if she was 18 or 19 or 20.
To begin with, what Tarantino is saying about the victim, Samantha Geimer, recanting as an adult is simply not true.