By Associated Press
LONDON: Prosecutors rested their sexual assault case towards Kevin Spacey in a London courtroom Wednesday after 4 males testified up to now two weeks that the Oscar winner preyed on them.
Prosecutors learn jurors statements Spacey gave investigators denying that he aggressively grabbed three males by the crotch and carried out a nonconsensual intercourse act on a fourth.
The defence is scheduled to start presenting its case Thursday in Southwark Crown Court. The stakes are excessive, with Spacey dealing with a attainable jail time period if convicted.
The 63-year-old American actor has pleaded not responsible to 12 fees that embody sexual and indecent assault counts and one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The allegations date from 2001 to 2003 when Spacey was working on the Old Vic Theatre.
None of the alleged victims knew one another however every testified that they went to police after Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct within the U.S. in 2017 because the #MeToo motion gained momentum.
The accusations on the time crippled Spacey’s once-stellar profession. He gained a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.” He was fired from the TV collection “House of Cards” and most of his work dried up.
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Three of the boys mentioned Spacey had a status of being drawn to handsome younger males and one mentioned he had been warned to keep away from him.
“It was well known he was up to no good,” the person testified.
One man mentioned Spacey made racially offensive remarks to him after which ” like a cobra coming out and getting hold,” grabbed his penis once they had been alone backstage at a charity occasion.
An aspiring actor who reached out to Spacey for recommendation mentioned he regretted assembly up with him for a late-night drink. He mentioned he ended up at Spacey’s flat close to Waterloo station and — after falling asleep or passing out — awoke with the star performing oral intercourse on him.
A fourth man who had gone out for an evening of heavy consuming with the actor mentioned Spacey later gave him a clumsy hug and kissed his neck earlier than grabbing his crotch.
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Spacey denied doing something nonconsensual and mentioned he did not keep in mind assembly two of the boys.
Spacey instructed police final 12 months that the fourth man who got here ahead had “reimagined” their time collectively and concocted false allegations.
Defense lawyer Patrick Gibbs advised the boys had been motivated by cash. Several of them have filed lawsuits towards the star and one testified that an American lawyer had mentioned he may win him $10 million.
Gibbs advised witnesses had been mendacity, that one of many males had obstructed the investigation by resisting efforts to let officers view cellphone information and social media accounts and that a few of the males had been later ashamed of what they’d consensually accomplished with Spacey.
Spacey, who owns houses in London and the U.S., is free on unconditional bail.
LONDON: Prosecutors rested their sexual assault case towards Kevin Spacey in a London courtroom Wednesday after 4 males testified up to now two weeks that the Oscar winner preyed on them.
Prosecutors learn jurors statements Spacey gave investigators denying that he aggressively grabbed three males by the crotch and carried out a nonconsensual intercourse act on a fourth.
The defence is scheduled to start presenting its case Thursday in Southwark Crown Court. The stakes are excessive, with Spacey dealing with a attainable jail time period if convicted.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The 63-year-old American actor has pleaded not responsible to 12 fees that embody sexual and indecent assault counts and one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The allegations date from 2001 to 2003 when Spacey was working on the Old Vic Theatre.
None of the alleged victims knew one another however every testified that they went to police after Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct within the U.S. in 2017 because the #MeToo motion gained momentum.
The accusations on the time crippled Spacey’s once-stellar profession. He gained a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.” He was fired from the TV collection “House of Cards” and most of his work dried up.
ALSO READ | Prosecutor says Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is ‘a sexual bully’ who preys on males
Three of the boys mentioned Spacey had a status of being drawn to handsome younger males and one mentioned he had been warned to keep away from him.
“It was well known he was up to no good,” the person testified.
One man mentioned Spacey made racially offensive remarks to him after which ” like a cobra coming out and getting hold,” grabbed his penis once they had been alone backstage at a charity occasion.
An aspiring actor who reached out to Spacey for recommendation mentioned he regretted assembly up with him for a late-night drink. He mentioned he ended up at Spacey’s flat close to Waterloo station and — after falling asleep or passing out — awoke with the star performing oral intercourse on him.
A fourth man who had gone out for an evening of heavy consuming with the actor mentioned Spacey later gave him a clumsy hug and kissed his neck earlier than grabbing his crotch.
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Spacey denied doing something nonconsensual and mentioned he did not keep in mind assembly two of the boys.
Spacey instructed police final 12 months that the fourth man who got here ahead had “reimagined” their time collectively and concocted false allegations.
Defense lawyer Patrick Gibbs advised the boys had been motivated by cash. Several of them have filed lawsuits towards the star and one testified that an American lawyer had mentioned he may win him $10 million.
Gibbs advised witnesses had been mendacity, that one of many males had obstructed the investigation by resisting efforts to let officers view cellphone information and social media accounts and that a few of the males had been later ashamed of what they’d consensually accomplished with Spacey.
Spacey, who owns houses in London and the U.S., is free on unconditional bail.
