Kevin Spacey

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sex offences including assaults on three men following an investigation by police in London, ...

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British prosecutors said that they had authorized criminal charges against Mr. Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men.

A massage therapist sued Mr. Spacey in California in 2019, accusing him of groping and trying to kiss him before offering him oral sex during a massage. “It seems that it only took a male under 30 to make Mr. Spacey feel free to touch us,” Mr. Cavazos wrote. Mr. Spacey is a two-time Academy Award winner. His new American thriller was also being sold at Cannes, according to Rolling Stone. But more recently, he has found roles in smaller films, including an Italian feature and an American thriller. It was being sold at the Cannes Film Festival, Deadline added. The spokesman declined to comment on whether the service would pursue extradition proceedings if that did not occur. The news release said the charges concerned three complainants. One actor, Roberto Cavazos, wrote on Facebook that he “had a couple of nasty encounters with Spacey that were close to being called harassment” at the theater. The first person to publicly accuse Mr. Spacey of sexual misconduct was the actor Anthony Rapp, who said in 2017 that Mr. Spacey had made unwanted sexual advances toward him in the 1980s, when he was 14 years old. The incidents dated from March 2005, August 2008 and April 2013, it added — a time when Mr. Spacey was artistic director of the Old Vic theater in London. All the incidents occurred in London, except one from 2013, which occurred in Gloucestershire, England. The Metropolitan Police said that one of the men was now “in his 40s” and that the other two were now in their 30s, but did not provide their exact ages. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s special crime division, said in the release that Mr. Spacey, 62, had “also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.”

US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday.

Spacey has won two Academy Awards for his roles in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty," and was artistic director of London's Old Vic theater from 2003 to 2015. The decision to charge Spacey "follows a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service in its investigation," the force said. The alleged victim of the 2005 incidents is now in his 40s, while the two men allegedly involved in the 2008 and 2013 incidents are now in their 30s, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Crown Prosecution Service authorises criminal charges against the 62-year-old actor.

“He has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. The CPS said the 62-year-old had also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. The actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

The first accuser contends he was sexually assaulted by Spacey twice in London in March 2005. A second accuser said Spacey assaulted him in August 2008, and a ...

In the weeks that followed, Spacey was accused of misconduct by several other people. The two-time Oscar winner said in a statement at the time: "I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. The first accuser contends he was sexually assaulted by Spacey twice in London in March 2005.

The charges follow a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation,” Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said.

Spacey pleaded not guilty, and the charge was later dropped when the alleged victim withdrew a civil lawsuit. Cavazos said Spacey would frequent the theater's bar and "squeeze whoever caught his attention." Another alleged assault happened in London in August 2008.

The charges follow a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation. The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that ...

It is unclear whether Spacey will submit himself to the authorities in London following the charges. Spacey also continues to fight a $31 million arbitration claim related to his time on “House of Cards.” Spacey was fired from the former flagship Netflix show following Rapp’s allegations. And in 2019 a civil suit against the actor alleging sexual assault was also dismissed after the plaintiff died. In the same year he escaped a potential criminal charge in Los Angeles after prosecutors said the alleged incident was time-barred under California’s statute of limitations. Following a cascade of sexual assault allegations against the actor in the U.S., the theater undertook an internal investigation which, according to the BBC, resulted in 20 victims coming forward who claimed he had behaved inappropriately toward them. The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Spacey are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.”

The actor is facing four counts of sexual assault as well as one for "causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent," according ...

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Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, England's Crown Prosecution Service announced Thursday.

In one video in 2018, he appeared to criticize the Me Too movement while in character as Frank Underwood, his "House of Cards" character. At a pre-trial hearing, the accuser refused to testify and pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned about the whereabouts of a key piece of evidence. More than a dozen men and teen boys accused Spacey of sexual harassment and assault in 2017, after which the once-revered actor's career came to a halt. In October 2017, Spacey issued a statement on Twitter saying he didn't remember the encounter but apologized. He told BuzzFeed in 2017 that he was 14 when he attended a party at Spacey's apartment, where he said an inebriated Spacey made sexual advances. Spacey also would have to hire a British lawyer to defend him, if he hasn't already, since Spacey would have been aware of the investigation under British procedures, Stephens said.

The sexual assault charges against Kevin Spacey stem from incidents said to have taken place in London and Gloucestershire between March 2005 and April ...

Spacey, who won Academy Awards for his performances in “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty,” starred as ruthless politician Frank Underwood in the Netflix series “House of Cards” when the allegations against him first surfaced. Prosecutors in Los Angeles and London launched investigations in late 2018, though the Los Angeles case did not move forward because the alleged incident fell outside the statute of limitations. More than a dozen others came forward with allegations against Spacey after Rapp, some of which resulted in legal action.

The disgraced actor faces four counts of sexual assault against three men, as well as one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity ...

(At the time, Spacey released a statement apologizing to Rapp, but claimed he had no memory of the alleged interaction.) Since 2017, Spacey has been embroiled in lawsuits pertaining to alleged sexual misconduct in the U.S., including one accusing him of fondling an 18-year-old man in a restaurant in 2016 and one accusing him of groping and attempting to kiss a massage therapist before offering him oral sex during a massage. The actor has been accused multiple times of sexual misconduct, including sexually assaulting two minors in the U.S. One of his accusers was actor Anthony Rapp, who came forward about Spacey’s alleged misconduct in 2017, claiming that Spacey made sexual advances toward him at a house party in 1986, when Rapp was just 14. The charges follow a review of the evidence gathered by the [London] Metropolitan Police in its investigation.”

Actor Kevin Spacey, who has been accused by dozens of people of sexual misconduct since 2017, was charged in the U.K. on Thursday with four counts of sexual ...

Spacey served as the artistic director of the Old Vic theater in London from 2004 to 2015, and in 2017 the theater said it had received 20 complaints of inappropriate behavior from Spacey. Spacey was previously charged in the U.S.—and pleaded not guilty—to an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from a 2016 incident with a young man in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The charges were dropped in 2019. In 2019, Variety reported that Spacey was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police in the U.S. regarding the U.K. investigation, which at that point focused on allegations from six different men about instances from 1996 to 2013. Another charge of sexual assault and the charge of causing the non-consensual sexual act are related to an August 2008 incident in London from a second accuser.

Prosecutors say they have authorized charges against the actor of four counts of sexual assault as well as one for "causing a person to engage in ...

Spacey is an Oscar-winning actor and was the lead of the Netflix hit House of Cards, until he was written out of the show following the sexual assault allegations. The CPS is also authorized charging him with one count of "causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent." Rapp is currently suing Spacey in federal court.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it had “authorized criminal charges” on the four sex assault counts and one of “causing a person to engage in penetrative ...

He said he made a trip to London in February 2020 for a possible film, but then the pandemic hit. Thursday’s court session in New York City dealt with a technical issue in the civil lawsuit, whether it was better handled in a federal or state U.S. court. The authorization to charge means criminal proceedings against Spacey are underway. Spacey denies the allegations. The alleged victims are now in their 30s and 40s. Prosecutors initially said Spacey had been charged.