Kevin Spacey back in court for sexual assault allegations

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The trial, which is expected to last less than two weeks, will focus on an alleged meeting between the two men in New York in 1986

Kevin Spacey appears in court today, Thursday, October 6, to defend himself in the lawsuit filed by Anthony Rappthe actor, who in 2017 made the first of a series of complaints that followed against the actor, alleging sexual harassment.

After the allegations, the career of the protagonist of “House of Cards” in the theater and in the cinema follows a downward course.

The trial, which is expected to last less than two weeks, will focus on an alleged encounter between the two men in New York in 1986. Rapp was just 14 at the time.

He claims that Spacey invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment and then tried to seduce him in a bedroom after the other guests had left.

He said Spacey was drunk, picked him up in his arms and then put him on the bed and climbed on top of him. Rapp said he quickly moved away and then kept quiet about what happened for three decades as both actors saw their careers take off.

When Rapp told his story to ‘Buzzfeed’ in 2017, as the movement #MeToo began to take over Hollywood, Kevin Spacey said he had no recollection of the incident, “but if I did behave that way, I owe him my sincere apology, for deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”

But Spacey’s legal team has since said the accusation is false. Rapp never attended the party, they said. Rapp is seeking damages for mental and emotional distress, medical expenses and lost work.

The trial comes at a difficult time for Spacey, who is now 63.

Three months ago he pleaded not guilty in London to charges that he sexually assaulted three men between 2004 and 2015 when he was artistic director at the Old Vic theatre.

Over the summer, a judge in Los Angeles ordered Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the creators of the Netflix series “House of Cards” for breaching his contract by sexually harassing crew members.

In 2019, prosecutors in Massachusetts dropped indecent assault and battery charges filed after a man claimed Spacey groped him at a bar. Spacey has pleaded not guilty. His accuser also dropped a civil suit.

Spacey won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1999 film American Beauty, in which he played a frustrated suburban father who desires his teenage daughter’s best friend.

Both Rapp and Spacey are expected to testify at the trial.

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