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Roman Polanski photo with Sharon Tate sells for $11,250
By Philippa Bourke / Splash News Dec 9, 2009, 12:00 GMT
French director Roman Polanski. - www.splashnews.com
A partly naked photo of fugitive director Roman Polanski and his late wife, Sharon Tate, sold for $11,250 at auction in the US.
The photograph was sold to an unnamed bidder by Christie's.
It shows Polanski and the tragic Tate in an embrace without clothes from the waist up. Tate, an actress, was murdered in 1969 when pregnant by followers of Charles Manson.
Polanski, meanwhile, is under house arrest in his Swiss chalet, the Milky Way, atop a mountainside in Switzerland. He spent more than two months in a Zurich jail after police arrested him at a film festival.
The Swiss authorities were reported weighing the extradition request of the United States for Polanski to return to Los Angeles and face 30-year-old charges.
Polanski has eluded American authorities for three decades. He faces charges of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
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