A jury concluded Thursday that Kevin Spacey did not molest actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in the 1980s.
Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at federal court for a civil trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Oct. 20, 2022.
During the trial, Rapp testified that Spacey had invited him to his apartment for a party, then approached him in a bedroom after the other guests left. He said the actor, then 26, picked him up and briefly laid on top of him on a bed.Rapp testified that he wriggled away and fled as an inebriated Spacey asked if he was sure he wanted to leave.
Spacey’s lawyer, Jennifer Keller, said after the trial that the defense was “very grateful to the jury for seeing through these false allegations.” “So here we are today and Mr. Rapp is getting more attention from this trial than he has in his entire acting life,” Keller said.Rapp’s claims, and those of others, abruptly interrupted what had been a soaring career for the two-time Academy Award winning actor, who lost his job on the Netflix series “House of Cards” and saw other opportunities dry up. Rapp is a regular on TV’s “Star Trek: Discovery” and was part of the original Broadway cast of “Rent.
The Associated Press does not usually name people alleging sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Rapp has done. During two days of testimony, Spacey also expressed regret for a statement he issued when Rapp first went public in which he said he didn’t recall the encounter, but if it happened “I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
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