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British prosecutor accuses actor Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting three men

2022-05-26T16:42:42.208Z


When the first complaint against him surfaced in the US, the interpreter said he did not remember the incident and alluded to "deeply inappropriate drunken behavior." Since then the accusations have accumulated and his professional career has crashed.


By Elisha Fieldstadt —

NBC News

American actor Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexually assaulting three men in the United Kingdom between 2005 and 2013, the British Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday.

Spacey, 62, "has also been charged with forcing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity."

The Prosecutor's Office filed the charges after reviewing the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police, Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Special Crimes Division of the Prosecutor's Office, said in a statement.

Two of the alleged attacks occurred in March 2005 in London against the same person, who has not been identified.

Another alleged assault occurred in London in August 2008. The alleged sexual activity without consent, that same month, was reported by the same person, also unidentified.

The other alleged sexual assault would have occurred in April 2013 in Gloucestershire, a county located 100 miles from London.

Spacey was removed from his starring role in Netflix's

House of Cards

series in November 2017 as allegations of sexual assault and misconduct first surfaced, and his successful film career has not recovered since.

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Actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making sexual advances on him three decades ago, when he was just 14 years old, according to BuzzFeed News.

Spacey responded in a statement on Twitter that he had no recollection of the alleged incident: "If I behaved as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried. I get all these years."

Days later, filmmaker Tony Montana denounced on the Radar Online website that Spacey groped him in a Los Angeles bar in 2003. And Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos said that, when Spacey was artistic director in London (between 2004 and 2015), he frequented the bar of his theater and groped whoever attracted his attention.

That same year, London's Old Vic theater (where, before becoming artistic director, he had performed since the 1990s) said it had received 20 accusations of "inappropriate behaviour".

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At the time, Spacey's publicist said "he is taking the necessary time to seek treatment."

In 2018, Spacey was charged with indecent harassment in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in an incident involving the teenage son of a former Boston television news anchor.

Spacey pleaded not guilty, and the charge was later dropped when the alleged victim dropped a civil suit.

NBC News has contacted the actor's representatives for comment on the latest allegations.

Source: telemundo

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