Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey might want to cancel that ticket to the Queen’s Jubilee — British authorities are bringing criminal charges against him on four counts of sexual assault against three men, the country’s Crown Prosecution Service announced on Thursday. However, Spacey cannot be formally charged unless he enters England or Wales and no plans for extradition have been publicly disclosed.
Spacey, 62, had “also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent,” according to Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s special crime division.
According to the news release, the charges stem from three alleged incidents dated March 2005, August 2008 and April 2013. The first two occurred in London, and one from 2013 took place in Gloucestershire, England.
Spacey’s fall from grace started in 2017, when actor Anthony Rapp accused him of making sexual advances on him him in the ’80s, when Rapp was 14 years old.
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Rapp said he attended a party at Spacey’s New York City apartment when the actors were both appearing on Broadway. He alleges that Spacey physically picked him up at the end of the night and “made a sexual advance” after placing him onto his bed.
Rapp is now suing Spacey, seeking unspecified damages for causing Rapp severe emotional distress and depression as a result of the encounter.
Shortly after Rapp went public with his story, Spacey said in a statement: “I’m beyond horrified to hear this story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”
Twenty other men subsequently came forward to make similar accusations against the Oscar-winning star. He was quickly dropped from Netflix‘s House of Cards and his part in a Ridley Scott movie, All The Money In The World, was reshot with Christopher Plummer.
This month it was announced that Spacey had been cast in the historical drama titled 1242 — Gateway to the West, scheduled to begin production in Hungary and Mongolia in October.
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humble charlie
1242?! he has to go that far back in the past to escape his accusers?
rapp, get over it. welcome to the real world. or rather the real theatre world.
the british are accusing him of ?. i thought all british were ?.
leave britney alone!!!!!!!!!!!
Rugby8
THANK YOU!!!!!
Harley
I’m ok with him getting the same sentence as Oscar Wilde and Alan Touring, particularly the chemical castration part.
Crayonap
That is so ignorant. It’s “Turing”. Oscar Wilde was not chemically castrated. The same sentence as Turing for breaking the enigma code of the Nazi’s and providing essential developments to what is the modern computer? The same sentence as Wilde for the vindictiveness of a lover’s father suing Wilde for debt?
Learn a little history.
Rugby8
One MORE set of UNSUBSTANTIATED Charges
All of these people jumping on the bandwagon because punky Anthony Rapp was asked if HE WANTED to go into Kevin’s room – nothing happened other being invited.
Rapp should be prosecuted for starting a Witch Hunt!!!!
Where’s Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn?
Rapp and others are as grossly guilty as McCarthy and Cohn
Disgusting
moretruth
Agree. I still have never heard any accusation against him that’s against the law or worthy of his cancellation.
Chrisk
Spacey likes his guys young so I’m inclined to believe him. Not to mention Rapp has a career in Hollywood and this doesn’t really benefit him.
The other guys I’m not so sure. However, it’s a known problem when you chase after the barely legal. Maybe he should hire Bryan Singers lawyers.
Polaro
This does not look good. The Rapp thing is questionable, but this accuses him of actually doing something that actually equates to a crime in this century. Worse for Kevin, his new movie looks really, really bad.
bachy
Caution, gentlemen! DO NOT display ANY enthusiasm regarding SEX ever again! Male sexual enthusiasm – a natural sentiment which can be observed in virtually every species and which has been integral to populating the earth despite endless wars, famines and plagues – is now wrong, Wrong, WRONG! Get with the New Program! Unless you want your reputation, your career and your life to be utterly destroyed, you must learn to be completely PASSIVE in bed!
CityguyUSA
If I were passive who would make the first move?
Polaro
And we have a winner.
Rambeaux
Man, did this guy ever piss a bunch of people off!
Fahd
What about Prince Andrew? No pending charges there?
No doubt, the civil lawsuits against Spacey are next — maybe he should set up a fund for current and future claimants and declare bankruptcy, a la the Boy Scouts.
RobF
The Rapp lawsuit (filed in 2020) is pure nonsense! He cites not being able to work as a result of Spacey encounter. Yet, check his IMDB page. He’s had PLENTY of work since 1986, including a stint on Broadway in If/Then in 2014.
Diplomat
Sex abuse greatly screws with the mind with loss of concentration and low energy being normal symptoms that cause a person to not be able to work until they are healed. Survivors have what is called EBT Emotional Brain Trauma.
86 to 14 is a long time. Who knows when he was healed enough to return to work. It’s best not to assume anything in these cases. Things can be a total mess during recovery.
BennyTheHell
I’m getting some interesting insights into how Queerty polices comments… I posted a long essay yesterday regarding my actual lived experience re: Spacey sex scandals, but it sits waiting for moderation. Depending on the final outcome, I may share some of those.
bachy
Can I give you a tip re: posting and “moderation”? I’ve found that if I attempt to “Edit” during the 4-minute wait period, the post always ends up in “moderation.” When that happens, I simply copy and re-paste the completed text into a new comment window – and avoid any additional “Edits.” After another 4-minute wait, my comment is published without any problem. Does that make sense? Reply if you have any trouble.
BennyTheHell
I am appalled at many of the comments above. Many years ago, while I was working in London and Spacey was appearing in the West End, much of gay London was abuzz with stories about his blatant and abhorrent sexual advances on young men. We’re talking full-blown Harvey Weinstein ickiness. Sure, one or two people saying something is easy to dismiss, but when night after night you’re hearing similar stories…. The larger conversation centered around several intriguing points: 1) in the US, Spacey was not “out” in any way, and at the time any rumors were, I think, quickly quashed or the source immediately discredited, apparently a whole team of handlers and publicists working to keep his Hollywood image squeaky clean. 2) At the time, few in the US gave a rats’ ass about the London theater scene, thus he could be open and frank about his orientation when in London, so many speculated that he moved the show from NY to London specifically for this freedom (and that his current boyfriend was one of the co-stars) 3) It was said (and most I talked to believed this) that he had paid staff cruising the bars for his type, and often had boys “delivered” to the theater to be there waiting in his dressing room after final curtain 4) Although appalled at the overall grossness of this, many expressed almost admiration for him being able to pull the whole thing off. I remember one gentleman patting my hand and saying “Don’t worry, dear, you’re MUCH to old for him” as if I had dodged a bullet (I’m 9 months younger). Do I know if all (or any) of this was true? No, all of it qualified as nothing more than hearsay, but as I said, it was discussed less as hot juicy gossip and more like commenting on the news of the day.
Polaro
Sweetie, everything you wrote, as you admit, is hearsay. Not worth the time to read it, let alone write it.
humble charlie
there’s nothing that says ironclad-proof like hearsay
johncp56
why di not the parents of the 14 year old allow him in an adult party and not say anything until now?!!
the other accuser was over 18 his mother then pushed on that clam ????