PublishedOctober 18, 2022, 02:59
New YorkIn the civil trial, Kevin Spacey denies allegations of sexual assault
Fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey denied the 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 having been with him in an apartment,” as the actor says, he answered questions from his lawyer.
Double Oscar Kevin Spacey has disappeared from screens and billboards after being one of the first artists swept away in October 2017 by the US-born global #MeToo wave.
American actor Anthony Rapp, 51 at the end of October, who stars in the series “Star Trek: Discovery” in particular, had filed a September 2020 complaint for anticipation and alleged sexual assaults 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 while watching TV, put him on a bed and rubbed against him.
During cross-examination on Monday, Kevin Spacey described his father as a “white supremacist” and a “neo-Nazi” – something he had never said in public before – who disliked gays and did not appreciate his interest in the theater.
“Shocked, scared and confused”
Spacey said he felt “shocked, scared and confused” after 2017 allegations that Anthony Rapp in a Buzzfeed News article and publicly apologized on the recommendation of his agents were posted, which he regrets today. . “I’ve learned my lesson, never apologize for something you didn’t do,” he said.
If he publicly reveals his homosexuality it is because he has been thinking about it for more than a year ahead of his established acting career, he also said. “I was accused of trying to change the subject, distract, or confuse an accusation with being gay, which was never my intention,” he said. he-he declared him in tears, before adding that “he would never do anything to hurt the gay community.”
In addition to this lawsuit, Kevin Spacey has other clashes with the law in the US and UK. In London, he is prosecuted for sexually assaulting three men between March 2005 and April 2013, when he was a theater director, and for which he pleaded not guilty last July.
(AFP)
