Kevin Spacey due in UK court docket on new intercourse offence prices
3 min readBy AFP
LONDON: Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was due in court docket in London on Friday to face seven new sexual offence prices.
Prosecutors introduced final month that they had authorised extra prices towards “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” star.
In July, Spacey, 63, pleaded not responsible to 5 comparable prices towards three males between 2005 and 2013 in London and Gloucestershire, western England.
The newest allegations will probably be formally put to him at a listening to at Westminster Magistrates Court in central London from 1400 GMT, a court docket official instructed AFP.
They are three prices of indecent assault, three of sexual assault and considered one of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent.
Prosecutors mentioned they associated to at least one man and had been allegedly dedicated between 2001 and 2004.
None of the alleged victims might be recognized underneath English legislation. Reporting restrictions forestall additional particulars from being disclosed earlier than trial.
Spacey, who was creative director at London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015, in October noticed a New York court docket dismiss a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit introduced towards him.
Anthony Rapp alleged the star focused him when he was 14. But a decide dominated he had introduced the case too late for a prison cost.
Spacey’s appearing profession ended 5 years in the past when the claims surfaced and he was dropped from the ultimate season of the political drama “House of Cards” and different tasks.
Claims towards the actor emerged within the wake of the #MeToo motion of sexual assault and harassment within the film business.
In 2019, prices of indecent and sexual assault had been dropped towards him in Massachusetts, within the US northeast.
Spacey has at all times denied allegations of sexual abuse.
LONDON: Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was due in court docket in London on Friday to face seven new sexual offence prices.
Prosecutors introduced final month that they had authorised extra prices towards “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” star.
In July, Spacey, 63, pleaded not responsible to 5 comparable prices towards three males between 2005 and 2013 in London and Gloucestershire, western England.
The newest allegations will probably be formally put to him at a listening to at Westminster Magistrates Court in central London from 1400 GMT, a court docket official instructed AFP.
They are three prices of indecent assault, three of sexual assault and considered one of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent.
Prosecutors mentioned they associated to at least one man and had been allegedly dedicated between 2001 and 2004.
None of the alleged victims might be recognized underneath English legislation. Reporting restrictions forestall additional particulars from being disclosed earlier than trial.
Spacey, who was creative director at London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015, in October noticed a New York court docket dismiss a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit introduced towards him.
Anthony Rapp alleged the star focused him when he was 14. But a decide dominated he had introduced the case too late for a prison cost.
Spacey’s appearing profession ended 5 years in the past when the claims surfaced and he was dropped from the ultimate season of the political drama “House of Cards” and different tasks.
Claims towards the actor emerged within the wake of the #MeToo motion of sexual assault and harassment within the film business.
In 2019, prices of indecent and sexual assault had been dropped towards him in Massachusetts, within the US northeast.
Spacey has at all times denied allegations of sexual abuse.
