“If I did behave then as he describes,” he wrote on Twitter, “I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”įollowing the initial wave of allegations, Spacey was dropped by his talent agency and publicist, fired from House of Cards, and scrubbed from film projects. Spacey initially responded with a muddled apology note in which he came out as gay (a deflection many criticized as conflating homosexuality and pedophilia) and claimed not to remember the incident. The first sexual-assault accusations against Spacey, 63, surfaced in 2017, when the actor Anthony Rapp told BuzzFeed that Spacey - who was starring in Netflix’s House of Cards at the time - had sexually assaulted him when he was 14.
(A week ahead of the verdict, that number dropped to nine, thanks to a “legal technicality.”) Spacey has maintained that he “strenuously denies” all criminal allegations, telling Good Morning America last year: “I am confident I will prove my innocence.” A year after being granted unconditional bail, he appeared in London’s Southwark Crown Court on June 28, having already pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges against him. Spacey originally faced a total of seven counts of sexual assault, three counts of indecent assault, and two counts relating to nonconsensual sexual activity. jury cleared him of nine sexual-assault charges, concluding a monthlong trial in which four men testified to being preyed on by the actor. Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey has won yet another trial stemming from the onslaught of sexual-assault allegations that have surfaced against him in the past six years.
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