American actor Kevin Spacey is facing charges of four sexual assaults against three men, the British Public Prosecution announced Thursday.
The head of the Special Crimes Unit at the British Public Prosecution Office, Rosemary Inslee, said in a statement carried by Agence France-Presse, that the Public Prosecution authorized the launch of criminal prosecutions against Spacey, 62, on the basis of four charges of sexual assault against three men, noting that the actor “. He was also charged with causing a person to engage in sexual activity with penetration without their consent.”
The attacks, according to police, occurred in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in western England in April 2013, and the victims are now in their 30s and 40s.
The British police had questioned the actor, who won two Oscars in 2019, about accusations from men of assaulting them in Britain, while the star of the “House of Cards” series was director of the “Old Vic” theater in London between 2004 and 2015.
Spacey’s film career took a devastating blow in 2017, when accusations of sexual assault surfaced in the United States. This coincided with the emergence of the #MeToo campaign, following the exposure of the sexual assault scandals committed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
In July, the US state of Massachusetts dropped charges against Spacey for indecent assault and sexual assault. However, Spacey has not returned to acting until today, and his last appearance in front of the camera dates back to 2018, when he played a major role in the movie “Billionaire Boys Club”.