Prosecutor says Kevin Spacey used superstar standing for ‘alternative seize’ described by accusers

By Associated Press

LONDON: It was greater than a coincidence that three of Kevin Spacey’s 4 accusers described comparable crotch-grabbing incidents, a prosecutor stated Wednesday in her closing argument at his sexual assault trial.

Prosecutor Christine Agnew informed a London jury that Spacey seized temporary moments for an “opportunity grab” and was capable of get away with it for years as a result of he was a celeb.

The two-time Oscar winner lengthy had benefited from a “trinity of protection,” realizing that males he attacked wouldn’t complain. If they did, he knew they would not be believed; in the event that they have been believed, he knew authorities would not take motion due to his standing, Agnew stated.

That started to alter after allegations within the U.S. arose in 2017 throughout the peak of the #MeToo motion when a fellow American actor accused him of sexually inappropriate habits a long time earlier. Other allegations adopted and finally led the 4 males, who didn’t know one another, to independently complain to the English police.

“Are they all motivated by ‘money, money, money’ as you were told rather dramatically by the defendant?” Agnew stated in quoting a snippet of Spacey’s testimony. “Or have they all just had enough of the secret of the truth that they have been carrying around for many years? They’re no longer prepared to be the secret keeper of someone who treated them so badly.”

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not responsible to 9 prices, together with a number of counts of sexual and indecent assault and one rely of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent. Originally he had confronted 13 prices however the decide on Wednesday eliminated 4 counts that duplicated the identical allegations underneath an older statute.

The actor testified over two days and denied sexually assaulting three males. He stated he had consensual encounters with two and downplayed crotch-grabbing allegations by a 3rd man as a “clumsy pass.” He stated allegations he made racially insensitive remarks to a fourth man and violently grabbed his non-public elements like a putting cobra have been “pure fantasy.”

The acts alleged between 2001 and 2013 escalated from undesirable touching to aggressive crotch-grabbing and, in a single occasion, performing an oral intercourse act on an unconscious man.

The protection has forged doubt on the accounts of the accusers and steered they have been motivated by cash. Two of the lads have filed lawsuits towards Spacey and a 3rd man reached out by means of Spacey’s web site in search of to settle the prison case.

Spacey introduced pictures one of many males had posted on social media of the 2 of them and a photograph that man despatched him from a mountain trek he took the place he claimed to have learn a Shakespeare soliloquy at Spacey’s suggestion from atop a peak.

Other protection witnesses stated Spacey would have had little or no alternative to assault a person backstage at a charity occasion, because the alleged sufferer claimed.

LONDON: It was greater than a coincidence that three of Kevin Spacey’s 4 accusers described comparable crotch-grabbing incidents, a prosecutor stated Wednesday in her closing argument at his sexual assault trial.

Prosecutor Christine Agnew informed a London jury that Spacey seized temporary moments for an “opportunity grab” and was capable of get away with it for years as a result of he was a celeb.

The two-time Oscar winner lengthy had benefited from a “trinity of protection,” realizing that males he attacked wouldn’t complain. If they did, he knew they would not be believed; in the event that they have been believed, he knew authorities would not take motion due to his standing, Agnew stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

That started to alter after allegations within the U.S. arose in 2017 throughout the peak of the #MeToo motion when a fellow American actor accused him of sexually inappropriate habits a long time earlier. Other allegations adopted and finally led the 4 males, who didn’t know one another, to independently complain to the English police.

“Are they all motivated by ‘money, money, money’ as you were told rather dramatically by the defendant?” Agnew stated in quoting a snippet of Spacey’s testimony. “Or have they all just had enough of the secret of the truth that they have been carrying around for many years? They’re no longer prepared to be the secret keeper of someone who treated them so badly.”

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not responsible to 9 prices, together with a number of counts of sexual and indecent assault and one rely of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent. Originally he had confronted 13 prices however the decide on Wednesday eliminated 4 counts that duplicated the identical allegations underneath an older statute.

The actor testified over two days and denied sexually assaulting three males. He stated he had consensual encounters with two and downplayed crotch-grabbing allegations by a 3rd man as a “clumsy pass.” He stated allegations he made racially insensitive remarks to a fourth man and violently grabbed his non-public elements like a putting cobra have been “pure fantasy.”

The acts alleged between 2001 and 2013 escalated from undesirable touching to aggressive crotch-grabbing and, in a single occasion, performing an oral intercourse act on an unconscious man.

The protection has forged doubt on the accounts of the accusers and steered they have been motivated by cash. Two of the lads have filed lawsuits towards Spacey and a 3rd man reached out by means of Spacey’s web site in search of to settle the prison case.

Spacey introduced pictures one of many males had posted on social media of the 2 of them and a photograph that man despatched him from a mountain trek he took the place he claimed to have learn a Shakespeare soliloquy at Spacey’s suggestion from atop a peak.

Other protection witnesses stated Spacey would have had little or no alternative to assault a person backstage at a charity occasion, because the alleged sufferer claimed.