Kevin Spacey pleads not responsible to UK sexual assault costs

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible on Thursday to costs of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past. Spacey, 62, spoke clearly as he denied 5 costs throughout a listening to at London’s Central Criminal Court.

Judge Mark Wall set a date of June 6, 2023 for the trial to start out and mentioned it could final three to 4 weeks.

The former House of Cards star, who ran London’s Old Vic theater between 2004 and 2015, denied 4 counts of sexual assault and one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

The incidents allegedly came about in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims are actually of their 30s and 40s.

Space’s lawyer beforehand mentioned the actor “strenuously denies” the allegations.

Spacey was granted bail and allowed to return to the United States after a preliminary listening to final month.

Spacey gained a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film American Beauty.

But his celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Eighties, when Rapp was a young person. Spacey denies the allegations.