Roman Polanski's lawyer has asked a Los Angeles judge to unseal testimony given by a former prosecutor who handled the fugitive director's sexual assault case.

Peter Gowen was born Youghal, Co Cork, and now lives in London. He is currently on tour with Decadent’s production of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. Upcoming dates include Everyman Theatre, Cork, 7-11 Nov; as well as Civic Theatre, Tallaght, 21-22 Oct; and Lime Tree, Limerick, Nov 4-5.

Poland’s justice minister is reviving an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the US, where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case.

Poland will not extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the US in an almost 40-year-old case after prosecutors declined to challenge a court ruling against it.

A court in Poland ruled that the law forbids the extradition of filmmaker Roman Polanski to the US, where he pleaded guilty nearly four decades ago to having sex with a minor.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has appeared in a court in Poland for a hearing concerning a US request for his extradition charges of sex with a minor, a case that has haunted him since 1977.

Roman Polanski’s Polish lawyers want media barred from next week’s hearing on a US request for the film-maker’s extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor.

Polish prosecutors have sent a request to extradite Roman Polanski to a regional court, saying the director’s Polish citizenship is not a legal obstacle to his extradition to the United States.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been questioned by a prosecutor in Poland concerning a US request for his extradition on 1977 sex charges.

Film-maker Roman Polanski has been questioned by a Polish prosecutor concerning a US request for his extradition on 1977 sex charges, an official said.

A Los Angeles judge has denied director Roman Polanski’s latest bid to have his 1977 sex case dismissed.

Hollywood actress Anjelica Huston has revealed details about the day she caught director Roman Polanski with a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s home.

An adviser to the Polish president accused US authorities yesterday of "absolute ignorance" in seeking the arrest of film director Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor, while he was in Poland last week for the opening of a Jewish history museum.

An adviser to the Polish president has accused US authorities of “absolute ignorance” in seeking the arrest of film director Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor, while he was in Poland last week for the opening of a Jewish history museum.

Polish prosecutors said they had interviewed film-maker Roman Polanski over a US extradition request over a 1977 sex crime conviction, but decided not to detain him, the Polish state news agency reported.

Prosecutors in Poland have questioned film-maker Roman Polanski at the request of US prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition on charges from 1977 of having sex with a minor.

How is it, asks Louise O’Neill, that men accused of heinous crimes continue to have careers, while women, in less trouble, are discarded in LA?

The woman sexually assaulted by filmmaker Roman Polanski 36 years ago, when she was a girl of 13, has published her memoir, saying it was time to “take back ownership of my own story.”

Baz Luhrmann’s 3D extravaganza The Great Gatsby, one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated films, will open the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

Bayern Munich warmed up for next week’s Champions League showdown with Barcelona by thumping Hannover 6-1 in the Bundesliga.

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Tomas Rosicky was today in a race against time to be fit for Czech Republic’s final European Championship Group A match against Poland tonight.

Faith, hope, Smuda. That was the headline in a Polish tabloid newspaper ahead of last night’s passionate clash between Poland and Russia, the words featuring atop a picture of national coach Franciszek Smuda charging on horseback, sabre in hand and wearing a 1920s Polish army uniform.

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Director Roman Polanski strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beasts and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries in this film version of the award-winning stage comedy 'God Of Carnage'.

Patricia Danaher found Roman Polanski, the controversial director of Carnage, in ebullient form when she met him in Paris

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Two years ago, police in Zurich, Switzerland, led Roman Polanski away to prison - but the Oscar-winning director returned last night to a very different reception in the city.

Roman Polanski will collect the lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival - two years after he was awarded it.

THE most memorable scene in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s new film, belongs to Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.

POPSTAR Madonna thanked her ex-husbands for encouraging her to take up a career in movies, as she arrived in Venice for the world premiere of her lavish royal drama WE.

GEORGE CLOONEY’S third directorial effort, The Ides of March, and Madonna’s second, WE, are bound for the Venice Film Festival, so the paparazzi should be out in force.

CONTROVERSIAL film director Roman Polanski’s thriller The Ghost Writer was the toast of the European Film Awards at a ceremony in Tallinn, Estonia, winning six prizes including best film and best director.

Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Roman Polanski's 'God of Carnage'.

Former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), takes on Ewan McGregor’s character to pen his memoirs after the previous ghostwriter dies in mysterious circumstances.

Roman Polanski made his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival to watch his wife perform on stage.

The district attorney prosecuting Roman Polanski in Los Angeles has blasted the Swiss government’s refusal to extradite the director.

THE Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man yesterday after rejecting a US request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Switzerland today rejected a US request to extradite film director Roman Polanski on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Switzerland will make an announcement today about film director Roman Polanski’s extradition to the United States for a 1977 sex case.

Swiss officials said they will decide soon whether to extradite Roman Polanski to the United States to face prosecution in a 1977 sex case.

Actor and film maker Woody Allen restated his support for fugitive director Roman Polanski, under house arrest over a 33-year-old child sex scandal.

Los Angeles prosecutors have met a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 - years before she appeared in one of his films.

Roman Polanski's lawyers issued a lengthy statement today, describing a request for his extradition from Switzerland as incomplete and unfair.