Spacey faces a civil lawsuit brought by actor Anthony Rapp, who has accused Spacey of sexually assaulting him when he was 14 and Spacey was 26.
Kevin Spacey leaves the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 6, 2022.
Kevin Spacey took the stand on Monday and began his defense against allegations that he sexually assaulted actor Anthony Rapp by claiming his father was a neo-Nazi and white supremacist. Rapp, who said the alleged sexual misconduct occurred when he was 14 years old and Spacey was 26, has brought a civil lawsuit against the older actor.
Spacey has only just begun testifying. Before the courtroom broke for lunch, he had spoken very little about Rapp’s claims beyond saying “they are not true.” Much of his testimony thus far has focused on his difficult childhood and how he got his start as an actor, at times chuckling over the memories.
Earlier in the trial, Rapp testified that he and Spacey met while they were both acting on Broadway. One night in 1986, he said, Spacey invited him to a party at his apartment, at the end of which he approached Rapp while he was sitting on a bed, “picked [him] up like a groom picks up a bride,” and climbed on top of him., first spoke publicly about the alleged incident in a BuzzFeed News story in 2017.
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