French-Polish director Roman Polanski, who fled the US in the late 70s after admitting to statutory rape of a 13-year-old, has reached a settlement in the civil case over an alleged sexual assault of another minor. He will no longer face trial, which was scheduled for August 2025. The case against the director of Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist, which concerned an alleged sexual attack in 1973, had been due in civil court in Los Angeles next August. The suit, filed in June 2023, claimed Polanski took a then-teenager – named anonymously in filings as Jane Doe – to dinner at a restaurant in Los …