Polanski made pass at my girlfriend, libel trial hears

A RETIRED financier told a British court yesterday how Roman Polanski made a pass at his beautiful blonde girlfriend just weeks after the murder of the film director’s actress wife.

Former investment adviser Edward Perlberg described a night at New York’s Elaine’s restaurant in August 1969 when Polanski allegedly made advances to Beatte Telle.

Mr Perlberg, 66, said that the Norwegian-born ex-model “was tall, slim, good to look at, blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair and sort of athletic. She liked the outdoors life”. The couple were at Elaine’s with Mr Perlberg’s friend, Lewis Lapham, within a couple of weeks of the slaughter of eight months’ pregnant Sharon Tate and four friends by Charles Manson’s “Family”.