LONDON – Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in London on Monday, city police said in a press release.
Mr Spacey, 62, who was also charged with one count of forcing a person to engage in sexual activity without their consent, is due to appear in court in London on Thursday, where he will confirm his identity and understand the allegations. A full trial date has not yet been announced.
The crimes involving three men are alleged to have been committed between March 2005 and April 2013, police said in a statement. Mr Spacey’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The British authorities last month resolved the charges against Mr Spacey, which came into force only when Mr Spacey traveled to England to be formally charged.
Mr Spacey told ABC News’s Good Morning America that he denied the allegations and would travel to Britain to defend himself. “Although I am disappointed with their decision to move forward, I will volunteer in the UK as soon as it is settled and defend myself against these allegations, which I am confident will prove my innocence,” he said in a statement. in front of the show. .
The allegations, described in detail in the press release, relate to incidents allegedly occurring in London and Gloucestershire, England. They date back to the time when Mr. Spacey was the artistic director of the Old Vic Theater in London, the theater house he ran from 2003 to 2015.
The first person to publicly accuse Mr. Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, of sexually misconduct was actor Anthony Rapp, who said in 2017 that Mr. Spacey had made unwanted sexual advances against him at a New York party. in 1986, when he was 14 years old.
Soon after Mr Rapp’s allegations surfaced in an article published by BuzzFeed, a number of men who worked with Mr Spacey at Old Vic also accused him of misconduct. An independent investigation commissioned by the theater said Mr Spacey’s “star and status” may have stopped people from bringing charges when it happened. The investigators’ report added that they could not independently verify the allegations, and Mr Spacey was not involved.
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