Polanski sues over 'on the pull after murder' claim

Roman Polanski sued for libel today over a claim that he “went on the pull” after his wife’s brutal murder and exploited her name as a “tool of seduction”.

The 71-year-old film director is suing Conde Naste, publishers of Vanity Fair, over a July 2002 article alleging that 35 years ago he made sexual advances to a “Swedish beauty” in Elaine’s restaurant in New York, just after Sharon Tate and their unborn child had been killed by Charles Manson’s “Family”.