Friday, 02 July 2010

Updates - 2 July 2010

I'll be adding updating info, writing occasional new blogs, and adding pieces of writing on the This and That page at my web site: www.jennydiski.co.uk, so please check there.
2 Jul 2010 10:12:46

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Rape-Rape This is part of my Diary piece in the latest London Review of Books: Read all of it here (See also the latest from Bernard-Henri Lévi in the Huffington Post) In 1961 I was raped by an American in London. I was 14, a year older than the girl Polanski gave half a Quaalude and champagne to, then had oral, vaginal and anal sex with. In defence of Polanski, various people have pointed out Geimer was a teenage model and was doing a photo-shoot her mother had fixed up with Polanski, who said he wanted to take the pictures for Vogue. As further evidence to mitigate Polanski’s crime people have pointed out that after she had been drinking champagne (encouraged by Polanski during the photo session) Polanski got into a jacuzzi and suggested she join him, but she said she had to go home. He phoned her mother and said she would be late, then he let her speak to her mother. Geimer replied ‘no’ when her mother asked if she wanted to be picked up and taken home, and she consented, according to one telling, though this isn’t clear in the grand jury transcript, to oral sex. She also...
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