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Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible Friday to seven expenses referring to alleged sexual assaults within the U.Ok. in opposition to one man between 2001 and 2004. Spacey, 63, appeared at Southwark Crown Court by distant video to face the fees, which included one rely of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent, three counts of indecent assault and three counts of sexual assault.
Spacey is dealing with a complete of 11 expenses of sexual assault in Britain in complete. In July, the actor pleaded not responsible at London’s Old Bailey courtroom to 4 expenses of sexual assault in opposition to three males between 2005 and 2013 in London and Gloucestershire in western England.
None of the alleged victims might be recognized beneath English regulation. Reporting restrictions stop additional particulars being disclosed earlier than trial.
Spacey voluntarily appeared at a London courtroom when the primary expenses have been introduced and vowed to defend himself in opposition to the fees.
Those allegations referred to a interval when he was creative director of London’s Old Vic Theatre, between 2004 and 2015.
A New York courtroom final month dismissed a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit introduced in opposition to Spacey by actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed the Hollywood star focused him when he was 14. A decide had dominated that Rapp had introduced the case too late for a prison cost.
Spacey’s appearing profession ended 5 years in the past when Rapp’s allegations emerged and he was dropped from the ultimate season of “House of Cards” and different upcoming initiatives.
Allegations in opposition to him emerged within the wake of the #MeToo motion that noticed quite a few claims of sexual assault and harassment within the film business.
He has all the time denied allegations of sexual abuse.
In 2019, expenses in opposition to the actor of indecent assault and sexual assault have been dropped in Massachusetts.
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