NEW YORK — Lil Kim was a big part of the Notorious B.I.G.'s life, but she's not happy about the way she's portrayed in the new "Notorious" biopic about the late rapper.

The Notorious B.I.G. mentored and dated Lil Kim.

In a statement, she says: "The film studio and producers involved were more concerned about painting me as a 'character' to create a more interesting storyline instead of a person with talent, self-respect and who was able to achieve her own career success through hard work."

But Notorious B.I.G.'s mother, Voletta Wallace, said Monday: "This is not a Lil Kim movie. ... If she's disappointed and upset, that is her problem."

"Notorious" opens Friday.

POLANSKI BACKED BY 1977 VICTIM

LOS ANGELES — Roman Polanski has no plans to ever return to the United States, according to a new legal filing in his effort to have a three-decade-old statutory rape charge dismissed. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 75, lives in France, where he fled in 1977.

His lawyer says in yesterday's L.A. filing that the fugitive director instead wants to provide a legacy by not allowing judicial misconduct to go unpunished.

The legal brief also argues that Polanski doesn't need to be present for the court to dismiss the charge involving sex with a 13-year-old girl. Prosecutors have said he must appear in person at the Jan. 21 hearing — and risk arrest.

The now grown-up girl says the district attorney's office in recent days has been releasing lurid details of the case to distract from what Polanski calls its history of "misconduct and improper communications with the judge" in the case.

Now a wife and mother of three living in Hawai'i, Samantha Geimer, 45, is willing to go to court in his stead.

"If Polanski cannot stand before the court to make this request, I, as the victim, can and I, as the victim, do," she said in a declaration signed at her home in Kilauea, Kaua'i.

STONE HANGS WITH BOLIVIA'S PREZ

LA PAZ, Bolivia — U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone kicked around a soccer ball and chewed coca leaves with Bolivia's leftist president yesterday during an interview for a planned documentary on Evo Morales' close ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Bolivian government photos showed Morales and Stone chewing coca and kicking a ball around the lawn of the presidential residence.

Chavez said last week that Stone asked him "100 questions" in a recent interview in Caracas. Stone is an admirer of the leftist Chavez.

CHRIS ROCK GOES BACK TO BOOKSHELF

NEW YORK — Chris Rock is making a comeback as an author.

Grand Central Publishing says Rock's new book — not yet titled — will be full of "comedic observations" and come out next year. His "Rock This!" was published in 1997.

BENNIFER BABY IS SERAPHINA ROSE

NEW YORK — Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have named their newborn daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck, a spokesman confirmed yesterday. Garner gave birth last week. Daughter Violet arrived in December 2005.