Prosecutor says Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is ‘a sexual bully’ who preys on males

By Associated Press

LONDON: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will get a thrill by preying on different males, a prosecutor instructed jurors throughout his sexual assault trial Friday in a London courtroom.

Spacey is “a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space, a man who it would seem delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable — a sexual bully,” Prosecutor Christine Agnew mentioned in her opening assertion. “His preferred method of assault is, it appears, to grab aggressively other men in the crotch.”

The 4 males who’ve accused Spacey of sexual assault didn’t know one another, however all “had the misfortune to attract” his consideration, she mentioned.

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not responsible to a dozen prices together with sexual assault, indecent assault and inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

Defence lawyer Patrick Gibbs mentioned Spacey denied all allegations of nonconsensual exercise and instructed jurors to ask themselves as they listened to the proof what — if something — had occurred.

“What has been reimagined with a sinister spin?” Gibbs mentioned. “What has been made up or twisted?”
He mentioned jurors would hear truths, half-truths, deliberate exaggerations and lies.

The prices contain males now of their 30s or 40s and date from 2001 to 2013. That covers a lot of the decade when Spacey lived in Britain and served as inventive director of the Old Vic Theatre till 2015.
The prices embrace seven counts towards one man and 5 counts towards three others. Several of the fees contain a number of events when he was mentioned to have indecently or sexually assaulted an alleged sufferer.

The prices allege the acts weren’t consensual and Spacey didn’t “reasonably believe” the boys had consented.

The two-time Academy Award winner arrived on the court docket by cab greater than two hours early. He wore spectacles and was wearing a light-weight gray swimsuit, white shirt and gold tie. Spacey entered the courtroom with a big binder of paperwork below his arm. After he sat down behind his lawyer, he pulled a pair of studying glasses from his shirt pocket and commenced leafing by the pages.

When the decide took the bench, Spacey moved into the dock, the place he sat behind a window in the midst of the packed courtroom. A guard sat within the nook of the room.

The actor is recognized in court docket by his full identify, Kevin Spacey Fowler.

A jury of 9 males and 5 ladies, together with two alternates, will determine his destiny in the course of the four-week trial in Southwark Crown Court.

“I am sure the defendant will be gratified to know that many of you will know his name or have seen his films,” Justice Mark Wall mentioned Wednesday to potential jurors in the course of the transient choice course of.

Spacey is free on bail. He has properties in London and the U.S.

The stakes for Spacey are excessive. A conviction may ship him to jail whereas an acquittal may enable for a profession comeback.

“There are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London,” Spacey mentioned in an interview revealed this month in Germany’s Zeit journal.

Spacey turned some of the celebrated actors of his era within the Nineties, starring in movies together with “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “LA Confidential.”

He has earned a number of distinguished performing awards for the theatre, the silver display and tv. He gained an Academy Award for supporting actor in “The Usual Suspects” in 1995 and greatest actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.”

Spacey not too long ago had his first movie function in a number of years, showing in 2022 in Italian director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” and taking part in the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman within the biopic “Once Upon a Time in Croatia.” He additionally stars within the unreleased U.S. movie “Peter Five Eight.”
 

LONDON: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will get a thrill by preying on different males, a prosecutor instructed jurors throughout his sexual assault trial Friday in a London courtroom.

Spacey is “a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space, a man who it would seem delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable — a sexual bully,” Prosecutor Christine Agnew mentioned in her opening assertion. “His preferred method of assault is, it appears, to grab aggressively other men in the crotch.”

The 4 males who’ve accused Spacey of sexual assault didn’t know one another, however all “had the misfortune to attract” his consideration, she mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not responsible to a dozen prices together with sexual assault, indecent assault and inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

Defence lawyer Patrick Gibbs mentioned Spacey denied all allegations of nonconsensual exercise and instructed jurors to ask themselves as they listened to the proof what — if something — had occurred.

“What has been reimagined with a sinister spin?” Gibbs mentioned. “What has been made up or twisted?”
He mentioned jurors would hear truths, half-truths, deliberate exaggerations and lies.

The prices contain males now of their 30s or 40s and date from 2001 to 2013. That covers a lot of the decade when Spacey lived in Britain and served as inventive director of the Old Vic Theatre till 2015.
The prices embrace seven counts towards one man and 5 counts towards three others. Several of the fees contain a number of events when he was mentioned to have indecently or sexually assaulted an alleged sufferer.

The prices allege the acts weren’t consensual and Spacey didn’t “reasonably believe” the boys had consented.

The two-time Academy Award winner arrived on the court docket by cab greater than two hours early. He wore spectacles and was wearing a light-weight gray swimsuit, white shirt and gold tie. Spacey entered the courtroom with a big binder of paperwork below his arm. After he sat down behind his lawyer, he pulled a pair of studying glasses from his shirt pocket and commenced leafing by the pages.

When the decide took the bench, Spacey moved into the dock, the place he sat behind a window in the midst of the packed courtroom. A guard sat within the nook of the room.

The actor is recognized in court docket by his full identify, Kevin Spacey Fowler.

A jury of 9 males and 5 ladies, together with two alternates, will determine his destiny in the course of the four-week trial in Southwark Crown Court.

“I am sure the defendant will be gratified to know that many of you will know his name or have seen his films,” Justice Mark Wall mentioned Wednesday to potential jurors in the course of the transient choice course of.

Spacey is free on bail. He has properties in London and the U.S.

The stakes for Spacey are excessive. A conviction may ship him to jail whereas an acquittal may enable for a profession comeback.

“There are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London,” Spacey mentioned in an interview revealed this month in Germany’s Zeit journal.

Spacey turned some of the celebrated actors of his era within the Nineties, starring in movies together with “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “LA Confidential.”

He has earned a number of distinguished performing awards for the theatre, the silver display and tv. He gained an Academy Award for supporting actor in “The Usual Suspects” in 1995 and greatest actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty.”

Spacey not too long ago had his first movie function in a number of years, showing in 2022 in Italian director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” and taking part in the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman within the biopic “Once Upon a Time in Croatia.” He additionally stars within the unreleased U.S. movie “Peter Five Eight.”