An arbitrator awarded MRC $31 million, and Spacey lost an appeal. Spacey was also sued by MRC, the production company behind Netflix's House of Cards, which said it lost money as a result of the actor having to be fired from the show's last season when he was accused of sexual misconduct.
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The Rapp trial is expected to take place in October 2022. Spacey appeared for a hearing in New York regarding the Rapp lawsuit in May 2022 on the same day the assault U.K. Rapp's attorneys said Spacey was offering a "sanitized version of the facts" by trying to claim that a "grown man who picks up a minor child, lays him down on a bed, and presses his groin into the child is not evidence that a touching occurred and that the acts were performed for sexual gratification," per Rolling Stone. His lawyers said the encounter never happened and argued that what Rapp describes doesn't qualify as sexual abuse under the law, according to The Associated Press. In April 2022, Spacey asked a judge to dismiss Rapp's lawsuit. Rapp sued Spacey in September 2020 along with another anonymous man who was later dropped from the case. At the time, Spacey said he didn't recall the alleged incident but that "if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior." After Rapp came forward, Spacey faced misconduct allegations from over 30 people. In 2017, Rapp told BuzzFeed News Spacey made a sexual advance toward him when he was 14 and Spacey was 26. Spacey is also facing a lawsuit from Anthony Rapp, the Star Trek and Rent actor who was the first to come forward with allegations against him.
Are there any other ongoing cases involving Spacey? Spacey was also sued by a massage therapist who accused him of groping, but that case was dropped in 2019 after the accuser's death. When asked about the phone and allegations that he deleted text messages, the accuser pleaded the fifth. (Spacey would go on to release two further videos on Christmas Eve in 20, sparking a similar reaction.)īy July 2019, prosecutors dropped the charges "due to the unavailability of the complaining witness." The accuser and his mother said they couldn't find a cell phone he used to send text messages during the alleged assault, according to CNN. He pleaded not guilty, and on Christmas Eve 2018, he released a video speaking in character as Frank Underwood from House of Cards, which drew widespread confusion and derision. In 2018, Spacey was charged with indecent assault and battery for allegedly groping an 18-year-old man at a bar in Nantucket two years earlier. Yes, this isn't Spacey's first time facing criminal charges since the sexual misconduct allegations emerged in 2017. Though it was initially reported that Spacey had already been charged, authorities clarified the charges had only been authorized, and he will "be formally charged at a later date." Spacey "cannot be formally charged unless he enters England or Wales," The New York Times notes. to "defend myself against these charges, which I am confident will prove my innocence."
But in a May 31 statement to Good Morning America, the actor said he would "voluntarily appear" in court in the U.K. Will Spacey be extradited?īritish authorities plan to seek Spacey's extradition should he not appear in court, according to Variety. In 2017, the theater said it received 20 allegations of inappropriate behavior by the actor, including "sexually inappropriate" touching, and three people told the theater they contacted police, BBC News reports. Officials didn't detail the allegations, but Spacey was the artistic director for the Old Vic Theatre in London during this time.
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