The deliberations lasted only 90 minutes. the people’s jury of a civil court in New York dismissed actor Anthony Rapp on Thursday, who accused the fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey of subjecting him to sexual touching at a party when he was only 14, and Kevin Spacey 26, in 1986.
Rapp claimed that Spacey had pushed him onto a bed, drunk, and had touched him. The actor of Star Trek Discovery had testified at the end of 2017 following the explosion of the #MeToo movement. Kevin Spacey said he did not remember such an episode but apologized for this “deeply inappropriate drunken behavior”. During the trial, he said he regretted this sentence, assuring that the incident denounced had never happened.
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The jury reached its decision following a short deliberation, pushing back once morest Anthony Rapp’s claims for $40 million in damages, in a lawsuit made possible by a New York law temporarily lifting the civil statute of limitations for sex crimes once morest women. minors.
Kevin Spacey, however, is far from out of the woods. He is to be tried, this time in criminal proceedings, in London, following being indicted last May sexual assaults once morest three men.
