{"id":23616,"date":"2022-10-06T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23616"},"modified":"2022-10-06T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:40:12","slug":"kevin-spacey-facing-trial-on-new-york-sex-abuse-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/10\/06\/kevin-spacey-facing-trial-on-new-york-sex-abuse-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey facing trial on New York sex abuse claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is due to go on trial on Thursday in a civil lawsuit over an allegation he sexually assaulted a boy 36 years ago.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Spacey is being sued in New York by Anthony Rapp, who says the actor inappropriately touched him at a party in 1986 when he was aged 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Spacey, 63, is separately facing five charges of sexual assault in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The House of Cards actor has denied the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Both Mr Rapp, now 51 and also an actor, and Mr Spacey are expected to be in the Manhattan federal courthouse when the trial opens with jury selection on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Rapp says that Mr Spacey was around 26 or 27 years old when he met him at a party at his Manhattan apartment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a Buzzfeed article from October 2017, Mr Rapp said that Mr Spacey had picked him up, placed him on a bed and lay down partially on top of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually,” Mr Rapp said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His lawsuit says the alleged encounter lasted no more than two minutes and “there was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes, and no sexualized statements or innuendo”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The legal action was filed in September 2020 and accuses Mr Spacey – whose real name is Kevin Spacey Fowler – of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Rapp is reportedly seeking $40m (\u00a335m) in damages.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Rapp currently stars in Star Trek: Discovery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The judge assigned to the case, Lewis A Kaplan, previously dismissed a charge of sexual assault, ruling the statute of limitations had expired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One day after the Buzzfeed article was posted five years ago, Mr Spacey took to social media to say he had no memory of what Mr Rapp described.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“If I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,” he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“And I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a video deposition he filmed with lawyers in January, Mr Spacey denied that the incident ever took place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Rapp’s account “couldn’t have been true”, he said, because “I am not interested in boys and I do not touch people inappropriately”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Rapp stars in Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ and was previously in the Broadway musical Rent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Separate sex assault charges – alleging that Mr Spacey groped an 18-year-old at a restaurant in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 2016 – collapsed in 2019 after the actor’s lawyers argued the accuser had manipulated text messages on his phone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In August, a judge ruled that Spacey must pay $31m to the producers of House of Cards for the costs they incurred after firing him from the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In July, he entered a not guilty plea in London to criminal charges of sexually assaulting three men over a decade ago. That trial is due to begin in June 2023.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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