Kevin Spacey will face sexual abuse lawsuit filed by fellow actor Anthony Rapp as a federal judge rejects his plea to dismiss the lawsuit.
Anthony Rapp accuses Kevin Spacey of sexual assault, battery, and inflicting emotional distress. His suit states that Kevin Spacey grabbed his buttock, lifted him onto a bed, and placed his body partially on him.
Under oath Rapp has said that there was no undressing, kissing, or sexual statement. The whole incident lasted about 2 minutes.
The suit states that the incident occurred in 1986 when Anthony Rapp met Kevin Spacey at a party at Spacey’s Manhattan apartment. Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26 years old at that time.
The U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said that there was a genuine factual dispute about whether the now 62 years old Spacey was engaged in forcibly touching Rapp’s ‘intimate parts’ to gratify his sexual desire.
Earlier, In October 2017, Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey made a sexual advance toward him in an intoxicated state. In response, Kevin Spacey issued a statement stating that he does not remember such an incident and that he owes Mr. Rapp the sincerest apology if did behave then as he describes.
Later, in September 2020 Rapp sued Spacey for sexual abuse.
Kevin Spacey is also facing charges of sexual assault in Britain against three men. He is accused of sexually assaulting two-person and forcing one person into penetrative sexual activity.
However, the charges were authorized in May, but cannot be formally applied until he enters U.K. Responding to the allegations he described them as ‘false and never occurred’ in court filings.
Kevin Spacey, a critically acclaimed actor, has won two Academy Awards for ‘The Usual Suspects’ and ‘American Beauty.’ He fell from grace when the allegations surfaced in 2017.
He got suspended from the sixth season of the Netflix show House of Cards in which he was the lead actor for the last five seasons. He was also dropped from a Ridley Scott-directed film ‘All the Money in the World’.
Anthony Rapp is seeking monetary compensation and the trials are expected to begin in October 2022, according to the court filing and reports.
