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Rihanna Takes A Visit To Swiss Emergency Room

andPOP Staff — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:25:35 +0000

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After wowing the crowd in Zurich on Monday night, Rihanna paid an unexpected trip to the local emergency room.

E! Online reports the pop diva was in Switzerland on her European tour when she was taken to the hospital. Rihanna was escorted to the Hirslanden Clinic with two members of her entourage.

No comment was made by Rihanna’s people why she took a visit to the hospital. A spokesperson for the clinic said “We do not know the details.”

Nevertheless it could not have been anything too serious. Last night she rocked the house in Lyos, France performing to a sold out crowd.

Roman Polanski Ordered Back to United States

andPOP Staff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:42 +0000

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TMZ is reporting a Los Angeles judge has ruled that Roman Polanski must be present in court to be sentenced in his sex case. However it is believed that Polanski will not be coming back anytime soon as his lawyer will likely appeal the judgement.

Roman Polanski is currently in Switzerland under house arrest where he is fighting extradition. The Swiss courts are currently reviewing his plea to stay. Polanski pleaded guilty in 1978 for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl. Immediately after he fled to France before sentencing.

Roman Polanski Complicated Arrest Could Lead to Release

Emma Renda — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:26 +0000

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After 32 years on the run from the American government, Academy Award-winning film director Roman Polanski, 76, could finally see a resolution to his outstanding charges. He was finally detained in Switzerland where border officials acted on an American arrest warrant from 1977, but that move could lead to Polanski’s release.

In the seventies, Polanski pleaded guilty to charges for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor (Samantha Geimer, 13.) After he fled the country, American investigators have been passively keeping tabs on him, waiting for their chance to pounce.

Polanski fled to France before he was formally sentenced and has been on the lam ever since. His capture now could lead to extradition to the U.S. but now that the American, French and Swiss governments involved, the whole process could be fuddled. Polanski could be released entirely, or his time served prior to the initial court case will translate to his sentence.

Either way, resolution will hopefully be reached in the exhausted case. There was a public outcry in response tPolanski’s arrest, as film stars across the globe called for his release, according to Perez Hilton. Incidentally, his biggest supporter is Harvey Weinstein.

“We’re calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation,” said Weinstein.

A petition has also been launched, and signed by Monica Belucci (The Matrix Reloaded, Passion of the Christ) and Fanny Ardant (Paris, Je T’aime). Even French president Nikolas Sarkozy is said to be paying attention to the case, and Samantha Geimer, the defendant, is calling for the case to be dropped as well.

Polanski, director of The Pianist, Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, was at the centre of another high profile court case forty years ago when his wife, actress Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered by Charles Manson’s followers when she was eight months pregnant. Polanski’s mother was killed in Auschwitz during the Second World War, and he narrowly escaped the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.