At Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial, plaintiff describes ‘predator’

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2023-07-04 14:31:36
By Le Figaro with AFP

Posted 4 hours ago, Just Updated

Accused of sexual assault in the United States, Kevin Spacey was found not guilty last year by the civil court of New York. TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

At Monday’s hearing in London, video of a police interrogation was released. The plaintiff describes the actor there as “aggressive” and with “very disturbed” sexuality.

The first plaintiff at Kevin Spacey’s London sexual assault trial described the American actor as “a predatorin a police interrogation, the video of which was shown at the hearing on Monday. Judged since last week, Kevin Spacey, 63, pleads not guilty to 12 charges of sexual assault on four men between 2001 and 2013, in particular from 2004 when he was director of the London theater Old Vic.

In the video of the interrogation, the man says that Kevin Spacey assaulted him several times, including while driving him to a lavish party in the early 2000s.He grabbed me so hard (private parts) that I almost ran off the road“, he explained. “I pushed him against the door and told him don’t do that again or I’ll give you one“. According to him, young and handsome men were warned about the actor’s behavior, which he described as “aggressive“and to sexuality”very disturbed“. They were told to “be careful». «Everybody knew he was doing no good“, he added.

This alleged victim, said to himself “disgusted» and judged «ridiculesquestions from the actor’s lawyer, Patrick Gibbs, about his sexuality. Responding to questions behind closed doors, he also expressed his “shame». «Nothing happened between us, he assaulted me“, he replied to the actor’s lawyer, denying having had the slightest feeling towards the actor. To the police, he said that when he asked Kevin Spacey to stop trying to “fiddle“, the actor said nothing. “He was laughing and changing the subject“, he explained.

“Sexual harasser”

Facing the police, he explained that he could no longer bear to see Kevin Spacey on the screen. The actor, twice Oscar winner for his roles in American Beauty et Usual Suspects had been described last week as a “sexual harasserby the prosecution. These accusations emerged in 2017 at the start of the movement #MeToowhen Kevin Spacey was at the height of his fame, lead performer in the hit Netflix series House of Cards .

In the process, he was landed from the series and other projects in which he was to participate. During the investigation, Kevin Spacey denied these accusations, saying that some were “inventedand that other acts described were “consented“. Also accused of sexual assault in the United States, Kevin Spacey was found not guilty last year by a New York civil court. And in 2019, the charges were dropped in another case.


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