Kevin Spacey has not been found guilty.
10.07.2023 - 10:23 / deadline.com
An aspiring actor woke up to find Kevin Spacey performing a sex act on him after falling asleep at the two-time Oscar winner’s London flat, a court has heard.
The actor, one of four alleged victims in Spacey’s ongoing trial in the UK, told a police officer of the alleged incident during an interview that was played to Southwark Crown Court this morning.
The man, who is the fourth accusers giving evidence against the American Beauty and House of Cards star, said he had agreed to go Spacey’s address and up to his flat because “it’s Kevin Spacey.” He had written to Spacey asking to connect back in 2008 and unexpectedly received a phone call response.
After they ate some “leftover pizza” and smoked cannabis together, the man claimed Spacey “kind of opened up his arms and said, ‘come here.’
“Then he started to nuzzle his head… He was just rubbing his head into my crotch. I thought ‘this is incredibly weird’. I was very nervous at this point. I was just flicking through TV channels.”
The man recalled going through Spacey’s film collection and asking about other actors but “didn’t really want to have much of a conversation,” before the alleged victim fell asleep.
“Going to sleep isn’t something I would normally do – it is unusual in my behaviour just to conk out,” he said. “I remember four to five hours later waking up – my belt was still together but my button and my zip were down and he’s just performed [a sex act] on me.”
The man said he reacted by saying “no”, before adding: “Then he stopped and asked me to leave straight away. He said I shouldn’t talk to anyone about what had happened.”
Oscar-winning American Beauty star Spacey (who is being tried in the UK under his real name Kevin Spacey Fowler) denies the 12 charges
Kevin Spacey has not been found guilty.
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