The deliberations lasted only 90 minutes. the People’s jury of a New York civil court fired actor Anthony Rapp on Thursday, which accused the fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey about having sexually contacted him at a party when he was only 14, and Kevin Spacey 26, in 1986.
Rapp claimed that Spacey had pushed him onto a bed, drunk and touched him. The actor of Discovery of Star Trek had testified at the end of 2017 after the explosion of the #MeToo movement. Kevin Spacey said he didn’t remember such an episode, but he apologized for this “deeply inappropriate drunk behavior”. During the trial, he said he regretted this sentence, assuring that the reported incident never happened.
Kevin Spacey accused in the UK
The jury reached its decision after a brief ruling, rejecting Anthony Rapp’s $ 40 million compensation claims, in a lawsuit made possible by a New York law temporarily lifting the civil statute of limitations for sexual crimes against women. minors.
Kevin Spacey, however, is far from out of the woods. He will be tried, this time in a criminal case, in London, after being tried indicted last May sexual assaults on three men.
