The trial for sexual assaults that takes place in a court of London against the famous American actor Kevin Spaceycontinued today with the testimonial statement of a third alleged victim who claimed to have suffered from non-consensual physical contact to verbal aggression.
He award-winning Spaceyknown by titles like “House of Cards” and “American Beauty”Amongst others, he faces a series of twelve charges for allegedly sexually assaulting four different men who are now between the ages of 30 and 40 and dating back to the period from 2001 to 2013, when he lived and worked in London.
Spacey, 63, was first charged with sexual assault in the UK a year ago. The filings include seven counts of sexual assault, three counts of indecent assault, one count of causing harm to a person and engaging in sexual activity without consent, and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
Today’s latest update incorporated new testimony from one of the victims, who after his initial statement began to be questioned in court.
The jury was shown a video of the police interview in which the complainant claims that Spacey forcefully grabbed his genitals in a “painful”, “degrading” and “horrific” incident, according to Sky News television.
According to the man, Spacey he used to hide behind his sexual orientation to justify his actions, causing him as much harm as the alleged physical abuse: “Spacey claimed that ‘any inappropriate behavior was because I’m gay'”shared the victim, whose identity remains protected from public hearing.
The plaintiff regretted that someone used his sexuality “to hide and excuse his behavior.” He further explained that he did not speak out about the abuse immediately due to the socio-cultural environment at the time.
“It was a very different environment, long before #MeToo. I would have been considered an instigator,” he said, adding that “the world is very different now.”
The man suggested that, had he spoken out, he would have become the problem, and while he was not forced or beaten, the incident was relevant and disturbing.
For his part, Patrick Gibbs, defense attorney for Spaceyproposed that the whistleblower could have distorted the facts due to a possible interest in knowing Spacey. However, the man denied such advances, saying he had “no particular interest, emotion or desire to meet” the actor.
He also rejected the lawyer’s accusations that he was trying to “monetize” the situation, saying he was only looking for an apology.
The victim recounted in detail the alleged sexual assault, with a description of how Spacey he pinned him against the wall with his arm around his throat.
“He put me back against the wall and his arm was at my throat. That was the cobra maneuver,” he said, alluding to when the actor allegedly touched his genitals. The man stated that the incident lasted a few minutes and left him “extremely baffled”.
Meanwhile, the defense attorney argued that these events simply “didn’t happen at all,” but the man stood firmly by his side, insisting that while there was “no point in doing that to someone,” the incident “did happen without a doubt.” .
Regarding the verbal behavior of Spacey, the victim compared the actor’s insults to being shot from a “machine gun” and described the actor as “distant”, “rude and contemptuous”.
Kevin Spacey’s Background
The trial in England is the latest in a long line of complaints against Spaceywhich began in 2017 due to the public testimony of the actor Anthony Rapp -later formalized in a lawsuit in 2020-, which accused the double Oscar winner of the Hollywood Academy of having sexually abused him as a teenager during a party in the 1980s.
That was the trigger for multiple complaints from other men who also reported being subjected to abuse or inappropriate behavior by Spaceywhose career was abruptly interrupted while enjoying huge success for her lead role in the critically acclaimed political drama series “House of Cards.”
After the cases became important, Spacey He released a statement in which he claimed not to remember any of the reported episodes, although he apologized for what happened.
The actor faced other complaints related to sexual crimes, including two legal proceedings in Nantucket, in the state of Massachusetts, and another in Los Angeles, although he has not yet been convicted of any of them.
Source: Ambito
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