In tears, Kevin Spacey has challenged Anthony Rapp’s accusation before American justice. Other proceedings are pending against the plaintiff in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey on Monday denied actor Anthony Rapp’s sexual assault charge for which he is currently on civil trial in New York.
“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 winner Kevin Spacey disappeared from screens and message boards afterwards having been one of the first artists to be swept away in October 2017 by the global wave #MeTooborn in the United States.
American actor Anthony Rapp, 51 years old at the end of October, who plays most notably in the series Star Trek: Discoveryhad filed a complaint in September 2020 for advances and alleged sexual assault at a party in New York in 1986, when he was only 14, and Kevin Spacey 27.
Unpublished secrets
In his complaint, Anthony Rapp claims Kevin Spacey invited him to his apartment back then Manhattan, where she picked him up while watching television, 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.
Spacey regrets apologizing “for something he didn’t do”
Spacey said he felt “shocked, scared and confused” following the 2017 allegations that Anthony Rapp in an article by Buzzfeed news, and having issued a public apology on the recommendation of his agents, which he now regrets. “I’ve learned my lesson, never apologize for something you didn’t do,” she said.
If he has decided to publicly reveal his homosexuality in the wake of these allegations, it is because he has been thinking about it for more than a year ahead of his long-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-she declared 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.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
VIDEO – Accused of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey’s trial has begun in New York
