NEW YORK – A witness in Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial in New York said Friday that the actor assaulted him in 1981, a few years before the incident that is at the center of the civil suit filed by his prosecutor, Anthony Rapp.
Rapp, also an actor and now 50, accuses Spacey, 63, of attempting to seduce and touch him with sexual intent at a party in 1986, when he was 14, and claims $ 40 million in psychological harm allegedly resulting from the accident.
On the second day of the trial, Rapp’s lawyers, trying to establish a role model, called Andrew Holtzman, a 68-year-old man who worked at the Public Theater at the time, at whose Shakespeare Festival he said he was performing. . Spacey.
Holtzman recounted that in 1981 Spacey entered his office with a visible erection and tried to impose himself on him, grabbing him by the groin and silently pushing him against the desk as Spacey tried to free himself and yelled at him, after which he left the office. .
The witness, who at the request of Spacey’s defense made it clear that he was 27 and the actor 20 when the incident happened, assured that he was “shocked” and blamed himself for the experience, which ensures that he cannot forget. but that did not reveal itself to the organization.
The defendant’s lawyers, for their part, tried to sow doubts about those memories by showing a theatrical magazine of the production in which Spacey was supposed to be, and in which his photo appeared nowhere.
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Rapp took a stand and began answering questions about his family life before the court closed the lunchtime session, with which his testimony is expected to resume next Tuesday – Monday is a holiday in the United States. .
The whistleblower, known for his role in the “Star Trek: Discovery” series, publicly accused Spacey in 2017, at the height of the MeToo movement, and later sued him taking advantage of a new New York law that allows child sexual abuse victims go to court years later.
