Editor recalls Polanski's 'vulgar' seduction technique

A New York editor told the British High Court today of Roman Polanski’s “tasteless and vulgar” romancing of a beautiful Scandinavian model just after his wife’s brutal murder.

Lewis Lapham, who has been editor of Harper’s Magazine for 25 years, was the source of the anecdote at the centre of the film director’s libel case against Conde Nast over a July 2002 Vanity Fair article.