ROMAN POLANSKI - NUDE POLANSKI PHOTO TO HIT AUCTION BLOCK

NUDE POLANSKI PHOTO TO HIT AUCTION BLOCK

A portrait of embattled filmmaker ROMAN POLANSKI and late actress SHARON TATE embracing in the nude is set to go up for auction.
The oversize print, taken in 1969 by photographer David Bailey, shows the director and his then-wife intertwined just months before the actress was murdered by members of the Charles Manson cult in Los Angeles.
It's expected to sell for as much as $12,000 (£7,500). A similar shot sold for just over $17,000 (£10,625) in a 2006 London auction.
The Rosemary's Baby director is currently being held behind bars in Switzerland following his arrest in September (09) on an international warrant relating to a 1977 charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski pleaded guilty to the crime but fled the U.S. in 1978 before he could be sentenced.
The photograph will go up for sale on 7 December (09) in New York.