Paris (CNN)A French photographer and former actress has accused Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski of violently raping her in the 1970s when she was 18.
In an open letter published by French newspaper Le Parisien last week, Valentine Monnier, who is now 62, described the alleged rape and assault she said happened at Polanski’s chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad in 1975.
Monnier claimed Polanski violently raped her. “I thought I was going to die,” Monnier writes in Le Parisien.
