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New YorkIn civil trial, Kevin Spacey denies sexual assault charges
Fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey denied sexual assault allegations made by actor Anthony Rapp in court on Monday.
Kevin Spacey in New York on October 6, 2022.
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“I have no memory of having been with him at a private party or of having been with him in an apartment”, as the plaintiff asserts, he answered questions from his lawyer.
Double Oscar winner Kevin Spacey disappeared from the screens and the boards following being one of the first artists carried away in October 2017 by the global wave #MeToo, born in the United States.
American actor Anthony Rapp, 51 at the end of October, who notably plays in the series “Star Trek: Discovery”, had filed a complaint in September 2020 for advances and alleged sexual assault at a party in New York in 1986, when he was only 14 years old.
In his complaint, Anthony Rapp claims that Kevin Spacey then invited him to his Manhattan apartment, where he picked him up in his arms as he watched TV, placed him on a bed and rubbed himself once morest him.
During Monday’s cross-examination, Kevin Spacey described his father as a “white supremacist” and a “neo-Nazi” — something he had never said in public before — who disliked gay people and didn’t did not appreciate his interest in the theatre.
‘Shocked, scared and confused’
Spacey said he felt “shocked, scared and confused” following the 2017 accusations that Anthony Rapp in a Buzzfeed News article, and that he issued a public apology on the recommendation of his agents, were published. what he regrets today. “I learned the lesson, never apologize for something you didn’t do,” he said.
If he publicly reveals his homosexuality in stride, it is because he had been thinking regarding it for more than a year in view of his well-established acting career, he also said. “I have been accused of trying to change the subject, trying to distract, or confusing an accusation with being gay, which was never my intention,” he said. -he declared in tears, before adding that he “would never have done anything to hurt the gay community”.
Besides this lawsuit, Kevin Spacey has other run-ins with the law in the United States and the United Kingdom. In London, he is being prosecuted for sexual assaults on three men between March 2005 and April 2013, when he was a theater director, and for which he pleaded not guilty last July.
(AFP)
