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Spacey is accused of having committed multiple assaults in 2005, 2008 and 2013. The plaintiffs are three men who are between 30 and 40 years old today. Spacey has won two Oscars for his roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” and was artistic director of London’s Old Vic theater from 2003 to 2015, as well as starring in the series “House of Cards.”
Kevin Spacey was charged with four counts of allegedly sexually assaulting three men and one count of allegedly causing a person to engage in nonconsensual penetrative sexual activity.
This Monday, June 13, the London Metropolitan Police Service assured that Spacey, 62, must appear this week before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in the capital of England.
The London Metropolitan Police confirmed that Spacey had been charged with all five charges, authorized by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after being arrested.
The charges against the actor correspond to two alleged incidents in London in 2005, another two that would have taken place in 2008 and a more recent one, dated 2013. The CPS had authorized the charges against Spacey last month but they could not be formally applied. because this was outside the UK.
A score of independent accusations
Once the charges against him were authorized, Spacey announced his intention to travel to the British country to deny the charges to the press.
“While I am disappointed in his decision to proceed, I will appear voluntarily in the UK as soon as can be arranged and defend myself against these charges, which I am sure will prove my innocence,” the actor said in a statement.
Since the accusations against him became known, the actor has disappeared from the public scene.
Since 2017 he has been persecuted by allegations of sexual assault. In November of that year, London’s Old Vic theater said it had received 20 separate accusations alleging Spacey’s conduct against 20 men who came into contact with him at the theater between 1995 and 2013.
When the allegations of sexual misconduct came to light, the actor was removed from the famous series ‘House of Cards’ and the movie ‘All the Money in the World’.
Some of the processes against the Oscar winner have been prescribed or the plaintiffs or the Prosecutor’s Office have decided to withdraw the charges, although this has not exempted Spacey from paying expensive compensation.
With Reuters, AP and local media
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