On July 26, 2023, actor Kevin Spacey (New Jersey, 64 years old) was acquitted in London of nine sexual crimes against four men. It was his birthday and he burst into tears when he heard the jury find him not guilty of the nine charges he faced, seven of them for sexual assault. They were not the only complaints he faced. Since 2017, he began a cascade of allegations against the two-time Oscar winner (as a supporting role in Usual suspects, from 1996, and as the protagonist of American Beauty, 2000), with more than 30 people denouncing the interpreter for inappropriate sexual conduct. Some accusations that ended his career. However, to date, Spacey has never been convicted – he also won a civil lawsuit in the United States in October 2022, after being accused of an unwanted sexual advance at a party in 1986 to a minor – and that for him It has had a high price, as well as professional and reputational. “I can’t pay the bills I owe,” he confessed, again through tears, this Tuesday, June 11, on the program Piers Morgan Uncensored. The actor claims that he has incurred a debt “of many millions,” especially in legal bills related to his legal proceedings.
In the interview, which has been broadcast on both YouTube like in social networkthe well-known British journalist who gives name to the Show asks Spacey where he lives now and the protagonist of House of Cards, visibly excited, responds: “Well, it’s funny you ask that question because this week the place where I’ve been living in Baltimore is being foreclosed on.” The actor states in the program that he considers Baltimore, in the State of Maryland (USA), his home since 2012 – when he began filming the acclaimed Netflix series there until he was kicked out of the cast due to accusations of sexual crimes – and that has lived in the same property since 2016. “My house is being sold at auction. So I have to go back to Baltimore and put all my stuff away. So the answer to that question is that I’m not really sure where I’m going to live now, but I’ve been in Baltimore since we started filming House of Cards there,” he explains.
The interpreter of seven either Usual Suspects He also adds that he has managed to avoid complete bankruptcy, but that he does not have the money, and regarding what he plans to do in the future, he simply states that he will return “to the ring.” At the moment, he has already confirmed his return to the cinema as part of the cast of the thriller psychological The Contract, where he will give life to a character called The Devil. What has recently been released is a documentary titled Spacey Unmasked [Spacey desenmascarado], which features several men’s testimonies about events they say took place between 1976 and 2013 involving what they describe as “unwanted sexual behavior.” Spacey denies them. Still, he has admitted to Morgan that he has spoken to a “significant” number of men to personally apologize for his past conduct. For him, bad behavior is “overstepping the limits,” as he defined when asked by the presenter: “Being too touched, sexually touching someone in a way that he didn’t know at the time that he didn’t want. “I, personally, have caressed people, I have been kind to people, that’s who I am.”
In his first interview after the multiple accusations of sexual abuse, in June 2023, the actor acknowledged that no one wanted to hire him for fear of being canceled, but that there were “many people” ready to give him work at the time he was acquitted of the charges. During the trial in London in which he was found not guilty, he also admitted that he barely has any income: “The money is not coming in, and I have a lot of legal bills and things to fight.”
Several actors, including Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson, recently spoke out following the new documentary in support of Spacey and spoke out in favor of his return to acting in statements to the British media. The Telegraph. “I can’t wait to see Kevin back at work. He is a genius. He is very classy and funny, generous to a fault and he knows more about our craft than most of us,” Stone said. Neeson commented that he was “deeply saddened to learn of these allegations against Spacey,” but added: “Kevin is a good man and a man of character. He is sensitive, eloquent and non-judgmental, with a great sense of humor. He is also one of our best performers in theater and on camera. Personally, our industry needs and misses him greatly.”
King Charles III of England himself sent a message of support to the actor in the midst of his legal battle, as Spacey has now said in the interview with Piers Morgan. He assures that he felt “grateful” for the monarch’s message, but that he “did not want to drag him [al rey] to all this”. “He has a lot to do and I wish him the best,” she added. Charles, while still Prince of Wales, awarded Spacey the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2010 for his services to theatre, and again in 2016, when he was awarded the title of Knight Commander.
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