Prosecutor says Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’ who preys on other men
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will get a thrill by preying on other men, a prosecutor instructed jurors throughout his sexual assault trial Friday in a London courtroom.
Spacey is “a man who doesn’t respect private boundaries or house, a man who it will appear delights in making others really feel powerless and uncomfortable — a sexual bully, ” Prosecutor Christine Agnew stated in her opening assertion. “His most popular methodology of assault is, it seems, to seize aggressively other men within the crotch.”
The 4 men who have accused Spacey of sexual assault didn’t know every other, however all “had the misfortune to draw” his consideration, she stated.
Spacey, 63, has pleaded not responsible to a dozen fees together with sexual assault, indecent assault and inflicting a particular person to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The costs contain men now of their 30s or 40s and date from 2001 to 2013. That covers a lot of the decade when Spacey lived in Britain and served as creative director of the Outdated Vic Theatre till 2015.
The costs embrace seven counts in opposition to one man and 5 counts in opposition to three others. A number of of the fees contain a number of events when he was stated to have indecently or sexually assaulted an alleged sufferer.
The costs allege the acts weren’t consensual and Spacey didn’t “moderately imagine” the men had consented.
The 2-time Academy Award winner arrived at courtroom by cab greater than two hours early. He wore spectacles and was wearing a gentle grey swimsuit, white shirt and gold tie.
He entered the courtroom with a giant binder of paperwork beneath his arm. After he sat down behind his lawyer, he pulled a pair of studying glasses from his shirt pocket and commenced leafing via the pages.
When the choose took the bench, Spacey moved into the dock, the place he sat behind a window in the course of the packed courtroom. A guard sat within the nook of the room.
The actor is recognized in courtroom by his full identify, Kevin Spacey Fowler.
A jury of 9 men and 5 ladies, together with two alternates, will determine his destiny through the four-week trial in Southwark Crown Court docket.
“I’m positive the defendant will probably be gratified to know that lots of you’ll know his identify or have seen his movies,” Justice Mark Wall stated Wednesday to potential jurors through the transient choice course of.
Spacey is free on bail. He has houses in London and the U.S.
The stakes for Spacey are excessive. A conviction may ship him to jail whereas an acquittal may permit for a profession comeback.
“There are folks proper now who are prepared to rent me the second I’m cleared of those fees in London,” Spacey stated in an interview revealed this month in Germany’s Zeit journal.
Spacey grew to become some of the celebrated actors of his technology within the Nineties, starring in movies together with “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “LA Confidential.”
He has earned a number of outstanding performing awards for the theater, the silver display screen and tv. He received an Academy Award for supporting actor in “The Standard Suspects” in 1995 and greatest actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Magnificence.”
Spacey not too long ago had his first movie function in a number of years, showing in 2022 in Italian director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” and enjoying the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman within the biopic “As soon as Upon a Time in Croatia.” He additionally stars within the unreleased U.S. movie “Peter 5 Eight.”
