Polanski wins libel case against Vanity Fair

DIRECTOR Roman Polanski won £50,000 (€72,000) damages yesterday in a historic libel action which forced him to relive the horrific murder of wife Sharon Tate 36 years ago.

The 71-year-old film director sued over a July 2002 Vanity Fair story which said that he made a pass at a woman - model Beatte Telle - in Elaine's restaurant in New York, just after the August 1969 tragedy.

Tate, a 26-year-old actress, who was eight months pregnant, died with four others at her Californian home at the hands of Charles Manson's 'Family'.