Kevin Spacey Accuser Dies in Midst of Sexual Assault Lawsuit ( 3 accusers dead now). update: just call this negro if u have criminal charges
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Is this another 3, different from the ones that died? Or is he getting charged with the ones that died?
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those died were Americans.
Kevin: diff area codes, diff areaaa codes, I pedoooo, i pedo, in diff areaaaa codessss
Kevin Spacey Just Claimed His Dad Was a Neo-Nazi
By Victoria Bekiempis
Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock
Kevin Spacey’s testimony at his sex-abuse civil trial in New York on October 17 had all the elements of a melodramatic production. Moments after taking the stand, he claimed his father had been a failed writer, a neo-Nazi, and a homophobe as the actor detailed an upbringing that could best be described as emotionally Dickensian. Several hours later, Spacey teared up when detailing the fallout from Anthony Rapp’s misconduct allegations against him and cried about his own botched coming out in the wake of the accusations. In 2017, Rapp accused Spacey of sexual misconduct for having made an unwanted, aggressive sexual advance toward him after a house party in 1986. At the time, Rapp was 14 years old and Spacey was 26. Rapp sued Spacey in 2020 over the alleged incident.
“I grew up in a very complicated family dynamic,” Spacey said at the beginning of his testimony. “My father was unemployed a great deal at the time, so therefore he was home a lot of the time.” The family moved frequently, and his father “fell into” disturbing ideas and associates. “My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi,” Spacey said. “It meant that my siblings and I had to listen to my father lecturing us for hours and hours and hours about his beliefs and his ideas.” But, Spacey continued, that was when his own “hatred of bigotry and intolerance began.” He discussed this family dynamic as his lawyer tried to establish why Spacey hadn’t come out until 2017 after Rapp’s allegations came to light. Spacey’s lawyers have contended that Rapp blamed his flagging career on the fact that he was an out actor. The younger man, they have maintained, was annoyed that Spacey was not publicly open with his sexuality and, accordingly, did not experience the same career ramifications.
Spacey told jurors that the shame surrounding his household made him a private person overall — and not just about his sexual orientation. “My best friend in high school, who [is] Jewish, who is still a great friend to this day — I couldn’t bring him to my house,” Spacey said. “Everything about what was happening in that house was something I felt I had to keep to myself and keep private and never, ever talk about to anybody.” He said that he has “never talked about these things publicly” and that he grew up in a situation in which he “wasn’t comfortable talking about things. And part of those things was my father also used to yell at me about the idea that I might be gay because I was interested in theater, and he didn’t encourage me in that way. My father would scream at me, ‘Don’t be a —.’ he would use an F-word that is very derogatory to the gay community; I won’t say it in court. As I continued in my life, I think I just, I had a degree of shame because I wanted people to remember the characters that I played and not know too much about me.” Before relating these details of his childhood, Spacey said Rapp’s allegation of an aggressive, unwanted sexual overture was “not true.”
Spacey’s testimony turned exceedingly theatrical after the lunch break. His attorney, Chase Scolnick, asked him to explain a floor plan of his former studio apartment, where Rapp alleged the incident had taken place. The diagram, which was displayed on a piece of foam poster board, was placed on an easel-like stand in the middle of Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom. Spacey left the witness box and stood in front of the graphic. Kaplan’s courtroom deputy handed Spacey a microphone, and Scolnick then asked Spacey to explain the layout: Could he draw where the bed was? The sofa? Spacey, who wore a pale-gray suit, white shirt, and pink tie, carried himself with an affable composure, performing these tasks directly in front of jurors and speaking into the mic. Not long after returning to the witness stand, he did an impersonation of Jack Lemmon; they had performed together in the spring 1986 Broadway production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. But Spacey’s demeanor changed when he recalled learning about Rapp’s allegations. He claimed he and his representatives had worked tirelessly to figure out a response. They had told him he couldn’t just deny the allegations or he would be victim-shaming. At around this time, he started crying in the courtroom.
“They told me I couldn’t push back,” Spacey said, touching his face, sniffling, and dabbing at his eye with a tissue. He said he ultimately went along with his publicists’ strategy of saying he would have owed Rapp an apology if the incident had indeed happened. He also came out as a gay man in this apology statement. Spacey said he regrets apologizing for something he didn’t do — and for coming out at that exact moment. “I was accused by the gay community of trying to change the subject,” he said, choking up and sniffling again. “It was never my intention, and I never would have done anything to hurt the gay community.” An increasingly weepy Spacey added, “No matter how many people were helping me on this day and giving me advice, that’s mine. I have to own that. It was really wrong, and it was really bad, and I am deeply sorry.”
During Rapp’s testimony earlier this month, he described his fear when Spacey allegedly picked him up and climbed on top of him. “I was frozen. I was pinned underneath him,” Rapp said. “I didn’t really know what to do.” Rapp said he had “felt like a deer in headlights.” He claimed to suffer an ongoing emotional toll. The first time Rapp saw Spacey after the purported incident, when he went to see Working Girl not realizing Spacey was in it, was a shock, he said. “It was as if someone had poked me with a cattle prod,” Rapp remembered. He continued to see Spacey’s films out of a sense of “duty” as an actor. The last he saw was American Beauty. “He was playing a character where he was sexually involved with a teenager,” Rapp said. “It felt unpleasantly familiar.” Spacey’s team has repeatedly contended that Rapp was motivated by spite over the now-fallen star’s continued success.
By Victoria Bekiempis
Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock
Kevin Spacey’s testimony at his sex-abuse civil trial in New York on October 17 had all the elements of a melodramatic production. Moments after taking the stand, he claimed his father had been a failed writer, a neo-Nazi, and a homophobe as the actor detailed an upbringing that could best be described as emotionally Dickensian. Several hours later, Spacey teared up when detailing the fallout from Anthony Rapp’s misconduct allegations against him and cried about his own botched coming out in the wake of the accusations. In 2017, Rapp accused Spacey of sexual misconduct for having made an unwanted, aggressive sexual advance toward him after a house party in 1986. At the time, Rapp was 14 years old and Spacey was 26. Rapp sued Spacey in 2020 over the alleged incident.
“I grew up in a very complicated family dynamic,” Spacey said at the beginning of his testimony. “My father was unemployed a great deal at the time, so therefore he was home a lot of the time.” The family moved frequently, and his father “fell into” disturbing ideas and associates. “My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi,” Spacey said. “It meant that my siblings and I had to listen to my father lecturing us for hours and hours and hours about his beliefs and his ideas.” But, Spacey continued, that was when his own “hatred of bigotry and intolerance began.” He discussed this family dynamic as his lawyer tried to establish why Spacey hadn’t come out until 2017 after Rapp’s allegations came to light. Spacey’s lawyers have contended that Rapp blamed his flagging career on the fact that he was an out actor. The younger man, they have maintained, was annoyed that Spacey was not publicly open with his sexuality and, accordingly, did not experience the same career ramifications.
Spacey told jurors that the shame surrounding his household made him a private person overall — and not just about his sexual orientation. “My best friend in high school, who [is] Jewish, who is still a great friend to this day — I couldn’t bring him to my house,” Spacey said. “Everything about what was happening in that house was something I felt I had to keep to myself and keep private and never, ever talk about to anybody.” He said that he has “never talked about these things publicly” and that he grew up in a situation in which he “wasn’t comfortable talking about things. And part of those things was my father also used to yell at me about the idea that I might be gay because I was interested in theater, and he didn’t encourage me in that way. My father would scream at me, ‘Don’t be a —.’ he would use an F-word that is very derogatory to the gay community; I won’t say it in court. As I continued in my life, I think I just, I had a degree of shame because I wanted people to remember the characters that I played and not know too much about me.” Before relating these details of his childhood, Spacey said Rapp’s allegation of an aggressive, unwanted sexual overture was “not true.”
Spacey’s testimony turned exceedingly theatrical after the lunch break. His attorney, Chase Scolnick, asked him to explain a floor plan of his former studio apartment, where Rapp alleged the incident had taken place. The diagram, which was displayed on a piece of foam poster board, was placed on an easel-like stand in the middle of Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom. Spacey left the witness box and stood in front of the graphic. Kaplan’s courtroom deputy handed Spacey a microphone, and Scolnick then asked Spacey to explain the layout: Could he draw where the bed was? The sofa? Spacey, who wore a pale-gray suit, white shirt, and pink tie, carried himself with an affable composure, performing these tasks directly in front of jurors and speaking into the mic. Not long after returning to the witness stand, he did an impersonation of Jack Lemmon; they had performed together in the spring 1986 Broadway production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. But Spacey’s demeanor changed when he recalled learning about Rapp’s allegations. He claimed he and his representatives had worked tirelessly to figure out a response. They had told him he couldn’t just deny the allegations or he would be victim-shaming. At around this time, he started crying in the courtroom.
“They told me I couldn’t push back,” Spacey said, touching his face, sniffling, and dabbing at his eye with a tissue. He said he ultimately went along with his publicists’ strategy of saying he would have owed Rapp an apology if the incident had indeed happened. He also came out as a gay man in this apology statement. Spacey said he regrets apologizing for something he didn’t do — and for coming out at that exact moment. “I was accused by the gay community of trying to change the subject,” he said, choking up and sniffling again. “It was never my intention, and I never would have done anything to hurt the gay community.” An increasingly weepy Spacey added, “No matter how many people were helping me on this day and giving me advice, that’s mine. I have to own that. It was really wrong, and it was really bad, and I am deeply sorry.”
During Rapp’s testimony earlier this month, he described his fear when Spacey allegedly picked him up and climbed on top of him. “I was frozen. I was pinned underneath him,” Rapp said. “I didn’t really know what to do.” Rapp said he had “felt like a deer in headlights.” He claimed to suffer an ongoing emotional toll. The first time Rapp saw Spacey after the purported incident, when he went to see Working Girl not realizing Spacey was in it, was a shock, he said. “It was as if someone had poked me with a cattle prod,” Rapp remembered. He continued to see Spacey’s films out of a sense of “duty” as an actor. The last he saw was American Beauty. “He was playing a character where he was sexually involved with a teenager,” Rapp said. “It felt unpleasantly familiar.” Spacey’s team has repeatedly contended that Rapp was motivated by spite over the now-fallen star’s continued success.
Kevin Spacey Breaks Down in Court, Says Publicist Convinced Him to Apologize to Anthony Rapp: ‘It Was Really Wrong’
Kevin Spacey started crying as he blamed his publicist for convincing him to apologize to Anthony Rapp in 2017 over sexual misconduct allegations.
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Kevin Spacey Breaks Down in Court, Says Publicist Convinced Him to Apologize to Anthony Rapp: ‘It Was Really Wrong’
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Brent Lang, Antonio Ferme
Kevin Spacey became visibly distraught in a New York City courtroom on Monday afternoon, breaking down as he blamed his publicist for convincing him to publicly apologize to Anthony Rapp in 2017 after the “Star Trek: Discovery” actor accused him of sexual misconduct.
“I was being encouraged to apologize and I’ve learned a lesson, which is never apologize for something that you didn’t do,” Spacey said. “I regret my entire statement.”
Spacey then choked up and began to cry, as he said, “It’s my responsibility. I put it out there. It was really wrong. It was really bad and I’m deeply sorry. I have to own that.”
Rapp made his allegations in a BuzzFeed article as Hollywood was engulfed in one sexual harassment or abuse scandal after another, with moguls, media players and stars like Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Matt Lauer and others accused of misdeeds. In Spacey’s case, he was accused of making sexual advances to a then-14-year-old Rapp in 1986, when Spacey was 26. Spacey has forcefully denied these allegations in court. At the time of the BuzzFeed article, his response was more contrite, with Spacey coming out as gay and saying he had no memory of the alleged incident. He also offered Rapp “the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
Spacey said that he “literally didn’t know how to respond” to Rapp’s allegations and told the court that his publicist advised him against pushing back, counseling him that “they’re going to call you a victim-blamer.” His statement was an attempt to “avoid a crisis that was going to get worse.” Spacey, an Oscar-winning actor who starred in “American Beauty” and “L.A. Confidential,” was fired from his lead role in Netflix’s “House of Cards” and was digitally removed and replaced by Christopher Plummer in “All the Money in the World.”
Rapp, who is suing Spacey for $40 million in damages, testified last week that the actor invited him to a party in his apartment. After the guests left, Spacey allegedly picked Rapp up and pushed him on his bed, getting on top of him in a sexually aggressive way. Rapp claims he fled to Spacey’s bathroom before leaving the apartment. In court, Rapp said the incident with Spacey remains “the most traumatic single event of my life.”
Spacey admitted knowing Rapp, though he denied the incident. He said he had gone out to a club at the time with Rapp, who had just appeared in “Precious Sons” on Broadway with Ed Harris, as well as another actor, John Barrowman. It was during a period when Spacey was appearing on stage in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” opposite Jack Lemmon. Spacey said he had been flirtatious with Barrowman, taking him back to his apartment after going out to Limelight, a popular nightspot of the era, along with Rapp. But he didn’t act on the attraction because of Rapp’s presence.
“I was very impressed with Mr. Barrowman,” Spacey said. “He was very handsome and very charming. Anthony Rapp seemed like a kid. John Barrowman seemed like a man.”
On Monday, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan dismissed Rapp’s emotional distress claim against Spacey, arguing it was redundant. Spacey still faces a battery claim.
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp's sexual abuse lawsuit
A jury ruled that Kevin Spacey is not liable for battery against Anthony Rapp following a three-week sexual abuse trial.
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp's sexual abuse lawsuit
The decision comes after a three-week trial in New York.
By Jessica WangOctober 20, 2022 at 05:56 PM EDT
Kevin Spacey is not liable for battery against Anthony Rapp, a New York jury determined after a three-week sexual abuse trial.
The jury deliberated for nearly two hours on Thursday following closing arguments and determined that Rapp did not prove that Spacey "touched a sexual or intimate part" of him during a party at the House of Cards actor's New York apartment in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan formally dismissed the case.
"Mr. Spacey is grateful to live in a country where the citizens have a right to trial by impartial jurors who make their decision based on evidence and not rumor or social media," Spacey's attorney Jennifer Keller tells EW. "And he is deeply thankful to this particular jury. This was a highly educated group of six women and five men, all except one college graduates, and most with graduate degrees. Their verdict was swift and decisive. Justice was done today."
Richard Steigman, Rapp's attorney, told EW in a statement on Thursday, "Anthony told his truth in court. While we respect the jury's verdict, nothing changes that."
Rapp, now 50, previously testified that he felt like a "deer in the headlights" when Spacey, 63, lifted him "like a groom carrying a bride over the threshold" and took him to a bed, where he climbed on top of him. He called it "the most traumatic single event" of his life. In his own testimony, Spacey denied Rapp's allegations and claimed he never made a sexual pass at him.
Kevin Spacey arrives at United States District Court in New York on Oct. 20, 2022
| CREDIT: ED JONES/AFP/GETTY
The actor also got emotional while responding to Rapp's previous testimony in which he called Spacey a fraud for not living openly as a gay man throughout his career, citing complicated family dynamics with his "white supremacist and neo-Nazi" father. "To call someone a fraud is to say someone is living a lie," Spacey said. "I wasn't living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life."
Rapp is one of several men who have accused Spacey of sexual misconduct in recent years. When Rapp first came forward with his allegations back in 2017, Spacey initially apologized on social media. "I honestly do not remember the encounter," he wrote. "But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years."
Wait, so Spacey is still out here stealing assholes with all this heat on him?
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp's sexual abuse lawsuit
A jury ruled that Kevin Spacey is not liable for battery against Anthony Rapp following a three-week sexual abuse trial.ew.com
Kevin Spacey found not liable in Anthony Rapp's sexual abuse lawsuit
The decision comes after a three-week trial in New York.
By Jessica WangOctober 20, 2022 at 05:56 PM EDT
Kevin Spacey is not liable for battery against Anthony Rapp, a New York jury determined after a three-week sexual abuse trial.
The jury deliberated for nearly two hours on Thursday following closing arguments and determined that Rapp did not prove that Spacey "touched a sexual or intimate part" of him during a party at the House of Cards actor's New York apartment in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan formally dismissed the case.
"Mr. Spacey is grateful to live in a country where the citizens have a right to trial by impartial jurors who make their decision based on evidence and not rumor or social media," Spacey's attorney Jennifer Keller tells EW. "And he is deeply thankful to this particular jury. This was a highly educated group of six women and five men, all except one college graduates, and most with graduate degrees. Their verdict was swift and decisive. Justice was done today."
Richard Steigman, Rapp's attorney, told EW in a statement on Thursday, "Anthony told his truth in court. While we respect the jury's verdict, nothing changes that."
Rapp, now 50, previously testified that he felt like a "deer in the headlights" when Spacey, 63, lifted him "like a groom carrying a bride over the threshold" and took him to a bed, where he climbed on top of him. He called it "the most traumatic single event" of his life. In his own testimony, Spacey denied Rapp's allegations and claimed he never made a sexual pass at him.
Kevin Spacey arrives at United States District Court in New York on Oct. 20, 2022
| CREDIT: ED JONES/AFP/GETTY
The actor also got emotional while responding to Rapp's previous testimony in which he called Spacey a fraud for not living openly as a gay man throughout his career, citing complicated family dynamics with his "white supremacist and neo-Nazi" father. "To call someone a fraud is to say someone is living a lie," Spacey said. "I wasn't living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life."
Rapp is one of several men who have accused Spacey of sexual misconduct in recent years. When Rapp first came forward with his allegations back in 2017, Spacey initially apologized on social media. "I honestly do not remember the encounter," he wrote. "But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years."
Rapp, now 50, previously testified that he felt like a "deer in the headlights" when Spacey, 63, lifted him "like a groom carrying a bride over the threshold" and took him to a bed, where he climbed on top of him. He called it "the most traumatic single event" of his life.
Damn this dude is Teflon for real
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Fuck it
Dude had that face like spacey I’m to old for this shit.. spacey had that look like sometimes I like them young and fresh and sometimes I like them old and ripe
Dude got spaceyd later on that night
that nigga a killa
yep...a fag that's killing fags...brah
nah he is taking fags whenever he wants
but with access and protection he has - I think this guy is a killer for real
Kevin Spacey found not guilty in U.K. sexual assault trial
A London jury found Kevin Spacey not guilty on all nine charges against him in his U.K. sexual assault trial.
he is going to have a lot of business soonKevin Spacey found not guilty in U.K. sexual assault trial
A London jury found Kevin Spacey not guilty on all nine charges against him in his U.K. sexual assault trial.
after all the shit going on
Kevin Spacey Sued By Massage Therapist, Allegedly Pressed for Sexual Favors
Kevin Spacey booked a massage therapist and then made sexual advances and offered to pay extra money in exchange for sexual favors during the massage ... according to a new lawsuit.www.tmz.com
To the ladies in the place with style and grace /
Hide your boyfriends and your husbands, as soon as you see Spacey's face ...