By Associated Press
LONDON: Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible on Thursday to costs of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past and was instructed he would face trial subsequent yr.
Spacey, 62, stood within the dock and spoke clearly as he replied “not guilty” to every of the 5 costs throughout a listening to at London’s Central Criminal Court, generally often known as the Old Bailey.
Judge Mark Wall set a date of June 6, 2023, for the trial to begin and mentioned it could final three to 4 weeks. It is more likely to be on the Old Bailey, the venue for Britain’s highest-profile prison trials.
The former “House of Cards” star, who ran London’s Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015, denied 4 counts of sexual assault and one rely of inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The incidents allegedly passed off in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims at the moment are of their 30s and 40s.
Space’s lawyer beforehand mentioned the actor “strenuously denies” the allegations.
Spacey, who has addresses in London and the U.S., was granted bail and allowed to return to the United States after a preliminary listening to final month. The decide continued the actor’s unconditional bail on Thursday, and mentioned one other pretrial listening to could be held early in 2023.
Spacey thanked the decide on the finish of the 15-minute listening to. He made no remark as he left courtroom and was ushered via a crowd of photographers and digital camera crews right into a chauffeur-driven automotive.
Spacey received a greatest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.”
But his celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Nineteen Eighties, when Rapp was a young person. Spacey denies the allegations.
Spacey faces a separate civil sex-assault lawsuit from Rapp in U.S. federal courtroom in New York.
LONDON: Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible on Thursday to costs of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past and was instructed he would face trial subsequent yr.
Spacey, 62, stood within the dock and spoke clearly as he replied “not guilty” to every of the 5 costs throughout a listening to at London’s Central Criminal Court, generally often known as the Old Bailey.
Judge Mark Wall set a date of June 6, 2023, for the trial to begin and mentioned it could final three to 4 weeks. It is more likely to be on the Old Bailey, the venue for Britain’s highest-profile prison trials.
The former “House of Cards” star, who ran London’s Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015, denied 4 counts of sexual assault and one rely of inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The incidents allegedly passed off in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims at the moment are of their 30s and 40s.
Space’s lawyer beforehand mentioned the actor “strenuously denies” the allegations.
Spacey, who has addresses in London and the U.S., was granted bail and allowed to return to the United States after a preliminary listening to final month. The decide continued the actor’s unconditional bail on Thursday, and mentioned one other pretrial listening to could be held early in 2023.
Spacey thanked the decide on the finish of the 15-minute listening to. He made no remark as he left courtroom and was ushered via a crowd of photographers and digital camera crews right into a chauffeur-driven automotive.
Spacey received a greatest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.”
But his celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Nineteen Eighties, when Rapp was a young person. Spacey denies the allegations.
Spacey faces a separate civil sex-assault lawsuit from Rapp in U.S. federal courtroom in New York.
