American actor Kevin Spacey is charged in London, England, with four counts of sexual assault and another for allegedly causing a person to engage in such activity with non-consensual penetration.
These crimes that he allegedly committed against three men more than a decade ago will bring him to trial next year. However, this July 14, the actor pleaded not guilty before a British court of the five crimes he is charged with.
The incidents would have taken place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, while another episode occurred in the west of England in April 2013. Today, the victims are between 30 and 40 years old.
The actor’s lawyer had already told the press that Spacey flatly denied the accusations. Furthermore, after the preliminary hearing, which took place last month, the protagonist of House of Cards he was released on bail and allowed to return to the United States. The judge who ruled this continued the unconditional bail and said another pre-trial hearing will take place in early 2023.
However, these are not the only problems that Spacey has faced, because in 2017, Anthony Rapp accused him of assaulting him at a party in the 1980s when he was still a teenager, accusations that the Oscar winner also denied.
This accusation led to the actor’s career abruptly stopping, since his last appearance on the screen dates back to 2018 at the premiere of the film. Billionaire Boys Club.
He was previously fired from the series House of Cards and due to this, the production company MRC sued him and was ordered to pay 31 million dollars, as compensation for the loss of income attributed to his departure from the successful program.
Source: Okchicas
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