Book Report - "The Girl": A life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski by Samantha Geimer

Grump Writes:

A pretty good book and an easy read.  If anyone is expecting any juicy writing about the “sex act” (rape) it does not go into detail.   There is hardly any mention of Sharon or her murder.  It’s your basic biography, I lived here, I married him, divorced him, married him, found out my divorce was not legal so my marriage was not legal.  Was that a run on sentence??

Roman pled to “an unlawful sex act,” the lowest charge.  Samantha and her family were in total support of this.  They just wanted it to go way.

In short, the entire Roman fleeing to Europe was because of a corrupt Judge.  At one time, while the DA, Roman’s and Samantha’s lawyers were in the judge’s chambers, the judge was on the phone with reporter Bill Farr asking his opinion. Remember that name from the Manson trials?  It was all about publicity and politics.  Roman was sentenced to a 90 day mental evaluation at Chino, he completed it in 45 days.  The judge wanted him put back for an undetermined amount of time until he figures out what to do.  In legal terms, he could been held up to 50 years. He completed his sentence, none of the layers or DA (or Samantha) felt he needed to go back to prison.  So Roman fled. 

Samantha never forgave Roman, and her mother did not pimp her out as some have written.  Samantha did file a sexual assault civil lawsuit against Roman later in life. It seemed the statue of limitations stopped the moment Roman fled. She got a 6 figure settlement,   During Romans’ deposition, in Paris, Roman said to Samantha’s lawyer, “If you had seen her naked, she was so beautiful, you would have fucked her too.”

Samantha  writes about her mother being an actress at one time.  She is described as once being a type of sex symbol in the DC area. Here she is in her commercials for Ourisman Chevrolet.


"You get your way at Ourisman Chevrolet!"

We have a commercial here for Courtesy Kia where the girl gives me those funny feelings too!

Wait until the price goes down some, and then grab a copy.