PHOTOS – Roman Polanski has been denied a request to be released from prison pending an extradition hearing in the Samantha Geimer (formerly Samantha Gailey) case (pictures below).

Samantha Geimer’s 1977 Roman Polanski’s case is now back into U.S. headlines at 6 am PST Tuesday, despite her wishes to have the case dropped. The Swiss Justice Ministry minutes ago ruled Polanski should remain in jail, deeming Polanski a high risk to flee, much as he did in 1977.

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As broke first on LALATE, Polanski was arrested on September 26, 2009 when leaving his native France for a film festival in Zurich.

In 1977, then Samantha Gailey detailed the February photo shoot involving Polanski choosing her clothes and telling her to remove them for photos. Gailey then says of the March photo shoot she was given champagne to drink to the point that she explains “So I have no idea how much I drank …

“We did photos with me drinking champagne.

Gailey says she was invited into the jacuzzi but Polanski again told her what to wear.

“I was going to wear my underwear, but he said for me to take them off”.

Later inside, she details this alleged exchange.

“He sat down beside me [on the couch] and asked me if I was okay. …. I said “No”. … He goes “Well you’ll be better.” And I go “No, I won’t. I have to go home”…. He reached over and he kissed me. And I was telling him, “No,” you know, “keep away”.”

In January 2009, Greimer, now 45, told the court in a written statement that she has long opposed to the continuation of this matter

“If Polanski cannot stand before the court to make this request, I, as the victim, can and I, as the victim do. I have urged that this matter come to a formal legal end. I have urged that the district attorney and the court dismiss these charges.”

“… I am no longer a 13-year-old child. I have dealt with the difficulties of being a victim, have surmounted and surpassed them with one exception.

“Every time this case is brought to the attention of the Court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case.”

Geimer long ago came public with her identity. Geimer is today 45 and married with three children.