Swiss to place Polanski under house arrest Friday (AP)

The 76-year-old director must stay in the house and wear an electronic bracelet as officials decide whether to extradite him to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, the authorities said.

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Polanski will be transferred on Friday to Gstaad," said Folco Galli, the Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman. He said the filmmaker could be in his home by early afternoon. The director of such film classics as " Rosemary's Baby ," "Chinatown" and " The Pianist " won a decision last week granting him bail, but was being held by authorities until he paid the full $4.5 million demanded by court. Swiss standards differ from countries such as the United States where bail bondsmen often post a percentage of the total.

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