Polanski accused of raping French actor in 1975 when she was 18

Valentine Monnier told Le Parisien in a story published Friday that the Hollywood director raped her at a ski chalet in Switzerland. According to Monnier, she was at Polanski’s chalet with friends in the winter of 1975 but did not know him personally. She said that he called her upstairs after dinner one night, and that’s where she saw him naked. Monnier said Polanski attacked her, hit her, ripped her clothes off, and raped her.

The newspaper spoke to several people who said Monnier told them about the alleged rape shortly afterward.

“Life had not trained me to be suspicious,” Monnier told Le Parisien. “Rape is a time bomb. The memory does not fade. It becomes a ghost and it follows you, and it changes you insidiously.”