Hollywood star Kevin Spacey is being sued by actor Anthony Rapp, who alleges he was subjected to an"unwanted sexual advance" when he was a teenager in the 1980s. Spacey, who is on trial in New York, has"categorically denied" the claims. Here's what has happened in court so far..
In a US civil case, any allegations only need to be proven"on the balance of probability" rather than to the criminal standard of"beyond all reasonable doubt". Rapp claims that at the end of the party, a drunken Spacey picked him up, placed him on his bed and climbed on top of him, before he was able to get away and leave the apartment.After the allegations broke, Spacey was edited out of the already finished film All The Money In The World and replaced by Christopher Plummer as J Paul Getty. He was also sacked from the political drama series House Of Cards.
Screen credits include Adventures In Babysitting, A Beautiful Mind, Dazed And Confused and currently the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery.Speaking about the alleged incident, Rapp said:"I was frozen... I didn't know what to do." Asked how he would respond to anyone downplaying the severity of what allegedly happened, he described himself as a frightened child trying to fend off a grown man."I'm an actor and I love films - these films were acclaimed and award-winning," he said."I felt it was part of my job to see them, I knew he was in them so I could prepare myself.
Spacey's attorneys said in a legal filing that Rapp's"allegations are, quite simply, false and never occurred".
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