Kevin Spacey sexual assault allegations: An inventory that spans almost 50 years

Previous to the continued litany of allegations made in opposition to him for sexual assault and misconduct, actor Kevin Spacey was primarily referred to as a adorned Hollywood and stage veteran, a two-time Oscar winner, and the star of Netflix’s groundbreaking Home of Playing cards. That every one modified in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexually assaulting him in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. 

The allegations made Spacey some of the outstanding celebrities accused as a part of 2017’s #MeToo motion. Spacey was fired from Home of Playing cards and his storied profession appeared to finish in a single day. The years since have seen a floodgate of comparable accusations in opposition to Spacey from males of assorted ages and backgrounds — over 50 in complete, spanning a interval of over 40 years and starting from harassment to tried rape. 

Although Spacey initially apologized to Rapp, he later denied Rapp’s allegations. In 2022, a jury discovered Spacey not liable for sexual battery in a civil lawsuit introduced in opposition to him by Rapp. In a UK felony trial in 2023, a jury acquitted Spacey on 9 completely different counts of assaulting 4 completely different males. Spacey claimed that three of the 4 males have been mendacity and the fourth had merely misunderstood a clumsy however innocent go. He characterised his personal actions as these of “an enormous flirt.” The jury believed him. He has reportedly issued a blanket “absolute” denial of all different allegations in opposition to him.

A latest incendiary documentary from the UK’s Channel 4, Spacey Unmasked (which aired on Investigation Discovery and Max within the US), collected extra new accounts from a few of Spacey’s alleged survivors. Spacey continues to disclaim all the allegations made in opposition to him, together with these within the documentary. Talking to the Telegraph in Might, he claimed he had been the sufferer of a “rush to judgment.” In the identical article, a number of outstanding celebrities, together with Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson, defended Spacey. Neeson claimed the trade “wants him and misses him drastically.” Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham referred to as Spacey’s detractors “vultures,” whereas Stephen Fry characterised his offenses as “clumsy” and “inappropriate” however implied they have been nowhere close to the kind of habits of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Bestselling creator Peter Attia additionally not too long ago joined the checklist of public figures attempting to rehabilitate Spacey’s picture.

Collected beneath is each public account of Spacey’s alleged lengthy historical past of serial predation. The portrait painted by these allegations is suggestive of an aggressive, risky, repeat sexual predator who continuously bodily intimidates his targets, manipulates them into being alone with him, and makes use of his energy and guarantees of profession development as bait.

Since Rapp got here ahead in 2017, quite a few different allegations in opposition to Spacey have surfaced. Greater than 50 males have made extraordinarily constant claims in opposition to the actor. A lot of Spacey’s accusers describe witnessing or experiencing habits from the actor that, like that of Weinstein, concerned utilizing the lure of his success and the chance of profession mentorship to place himself able the place he may prey on younger males. Taken collectively, the allegations recommend a sample of escalating bodily contact and aggression, the constant presence of alcohol, and Spacey making a behavior of cornering his victims so as to confront them.

The allegations in opposition to Spacey are so quite a few, spanning a number of many years and continents, that it’s tough to trace all of them. Moreover, a few of the allegations might overlap because of the confidential nature of police investigations. Nonetheless, to the perfect of our skill, we’ve tried to make clear as many distinct alleged accounts on public report as we are able to.

Listed below are all the allegations we learn about up to now.

Within the Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked, a person named Greg, who was a 12 months behind Spacey at Chatsworth Excessive College in Los Angeles, alleged that Spacey sexually assaulted him when Spacey was 17.  Whereas Greg was driving them each to a celebration and Spacey was sitting subsequent to him within the passenger seat, Spacey allegedly grabbed Greg’s genitals. “It was a really aggressive sexual transfer,” Greg recalled. Greg additionally claimed that he felt “trapped” due to the circumstances. He says Spacey later begged him to not inform anybody what occurred.

On November 10, 2017, USA At present reported that Andy Holtzman, then 27, was working at New York’s Public Theater when Spacey, then 22, allegedly entered his workplace and wordlessly assaulted him.

“It was so misplaced, so sudden,” Holtzman stated. “It was the wordlessness of it — he by no means spoke to me all through, not one phrase. I used to be saying issues, he was saying nothing.”

Holtzman claimed that Spacey silently entered, sat down, then stood up and cornered him, assaulting him with “greater than a grope.”

Holtzman’s allegation is the primary on the general public report of many who characterize Spacey as extraordinarily persistent through the assaults — and intensely offended if he was rejected. Holtzman later testified within the 2022 civil case introduced by Rapp in opposition to Spacey; right here he advised jurors that Spacey “lifted me up by my crotch” and “pushed me again onto my desk” through the 1981 incident. Spacey denied Holtzman’s allegation.

Holtzman’s allegations have been later included within the documentary Spacey Unmasked. He described the alleged prevalence as “utterly out of the blue” and added that “there was nothing however pressure — bodily pressure.”

An nameless man advised New York journal that in 1983, when he was 14 and Spacey was 24, he started a sexual relationship with Spacey that allegedly culminated in Spacey trying to rape him.

The nameless actor acknowledged that his relationship with Spacey lasted a couple of 12 months, throughout which era he turned conscious that “25-year-olds don’t have intercourse with 14- and 15-year-olds, that that’s incorrect, that I used to be not the responsible get together and I may depart.” He advised New York that the connection ended when he was 15, after Spacey allegedly tried to rape him.

The actor stated he was capable of combat Spacey off and escape. Spacey denied the allegation.

After Rapp got here ahead in 2017, the nameless man approached him about submitting a civil lawsuit in opposition to Spacey. Whereas each males pursued the case and stood by their allegations, the nameless man in the end dropped his claims after the choose within the case refused to grant him anonymity or pseudonymity.

The BBC reported on November 1, 2017, that Spacey allegedly approached an nameless 17-year-old boy in 1985, befriending the teenager after which in the end inviting him to go to his dwelling, the place Spacey progressed from being “charming and brotherly” to sexually inappropriate. After rejecting Spacey’s preliminary advances, the accuser says he woke as much as discover “Spacey’s head on his abdomen and his arms wrapped round him.” The nameless supply described Spacey to the BBC as “both very silly or predatory or … each,” and famous that Spacey had not been drunk throughout their encounter.

“It appears he was grooming me,” the nameless supply advised the BBC.

Although Edwards is an outlier within the checklist by way of gender, her alleged expertise has commonalities with a number of of the opposite allegations.

When London performing arts trainer Kate Edwards was 17, she labored as a manufacturing assistant for the 1986 Broadway revival of Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Night time, during which Spacey starred alongside his longtime idol Jack Lemmon. Edwards alleged to the BBC that Spacey, then 27, invited her as much as his flat for an apparently nonexistent get together, the place he kissed her. When it turned clear he needed intercourse, she made her excuses about wanting to go away, alleging that he then “turned chilly” and advised her to “discover [her] personal approach” dwelling.

Edwards stated that Spacey subsequently “minimize her useless” after the encounter, telling the BBC that she turned depressed and finally needed to stop the present due to how “confused, utterly remoted, ashamed” she felt over the incident.

Rapp advised BuzzFeed that Spacey befriended him in 1986, when Rapp was 14 years outdated and performing within the Broadway play Valuable Sons. In line with Rapp, Spacey made “a sexual advance” towards him whereas he was attending a celebration at Spacey’s dwelling. In his subsequent lawsuit, he claimed Spacey picked him up bridal-style, put him on the mattress, and lay on prime of him till he managed to extricate himself and flee into the lavatory.

A person named Justin Dawes advised BuzzFeed that he met a 29-year-old Spacey by a Connecticut theater when he was 16 years outdated and a junior in highschool. Spacey allegedly invited Dawes and a good friend to hang around at his condo, the place he served them cocktails and confirmed homosexual porn. In line with BuzzFeed, though nothing else occurred, “on the time, the 16-year-old felt like he ‘ought to’ve realized’ that Spacey needed him to come back over for causes associated to intercourse.”

“He knew that I used to be in highschool,” Dawes advised BuzzFeed. “It was fairly clear.”

In April 2018, the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace confirmed that it had obtained an allegation by an unnamed man that Spacey had sexually assaulted him in 1992. Although the workplace, which in the end declined to prosecute the case because it fell exterior the statute of limitations, revealed little in regards to the declare, they did verify that the accuser was an grownup on the time of the incident.

Spacey’s involvement with London’s Previous Vic Theatre started within the mid-90s, and the theater would go on to function the positioning for 20 accusations. He served because the theater’s inventive director from 2004 to 2015. In 2017, after the preliminary allegations in opposition to Spacey got here to mild, the Previous Vic arrange a confidential electronic mail to obtain ideas and reviews in regards to the actor. A number of allegations regarding Spacey’s habits whereas on the Previous Vic rapidly surfaced.

On November 16, 2017, the Previous Vic introduced that it had obtained 20 “private testimonies” by its investigation into Spacey. These claims reportedly ranged “from habits that made individuals really feel uncomfortable right through to sexually inappropriate habits.” The claims spanned 1995 by 2013, with most occurring earlier than 2009. All the claims concerned younger males, all of whom have been over the age of 18 on the time of the alleged incidents.

Throughout his tenure, Spacey hosted workshops for brand new and rising artists. Within the documentary Spacey Unmasked, an aspiring actor named Tim alleged that Spacey used one such workshop to brazenly — and publicly — sexually contact a number of performers. Tim alleged that Spacey first touched his hand, then “hugged [one performer] fairly aggressively.” When the time got here for Tim to learn his a part of the scene, Tim alleged that Spacey grabbed each of his arms and pressed his full physique in opposition to Tim. Tim speculated that the whole workshop was a false pretense to supply Spacey with a searching floor for “who to flirt with subsequent.”

Mexican actor Robert Cavazos alleged in a 2017 Fb submit (written in Spanish) that Spacey touched him inappropriately quite a few occasions, and stated that Spacey would continuously grope males whereas hanging out on the Previous Vic’s bar. “It seems that all that was wanted was a male below the age of 30 for Mr. Spacey to be at liberty to the touch us,” Cavazos wrote. “It was so widespread that it was a neighborhood joke (in very unhealthy style).”

The Related Press reported that the Previous Vic had urged 14 of the 20 respondents to go to the police with their allegations, however couldn’t verify whether or not any of them had completed so. In 2022, the Crown introduced a number of fees in opposition to Spacey. In a UK felony trial in 2023, a jury acquitted Spacey on 9 completely different counts of assaulting 4 completely different males. 

Mark Ebenhoch advised BuzzFeed that he had been working as a navy adviser on the set of Outbreak, during which Spacey performed a supporting position, when one in every of Spacey’s on-set assistants propositioned him on Spacey’s behalf.

“They requested flat out to have interaction in a sexual act,” Ebenhoch alleged. “It was sufficient to stun me. It blew me away.” Ebenhoch advised BuzzFeed that he rejected the invitation and prevented Spacey during the manufacturing.

The BBC reported that whereas engaged on the 1995 movie Albino Alligator, which marked Spacey’s movie debut, the actor allegedly harassed an nameless crew member who was 22 years outdated on the time. In line with the nameless crew member, Spacey initially appeared pleasant and took an curiosity in his profession, however progressed to “creepy” habits reminiscent of giving him an undesirable therapeutic massage.

“On one of many final days of capturing … he sat down subsequent to me and put his thigh in opposition to mine and put his hand on my thigh and moved it towards my inside thigh,” the person alleged. “I felt trapped. I felt harassed, sexually harassed.”

As alleged in Spacey Unmasked, Scott, a post-production movie crew employee, met Spacey at LA’s Viper Room membership. Later, at a home within the Hollywood Hills, Spacey requested Scott for a hug that Spacey allegedly was a “bear grip” involving undesirable sexual contact. When Scott resisted, Spacey allegedly advised him, “It’s okay,” and continued to grope him. 

At a later date, Spacey, dangling a proposal to assist Scott together with his profession, went with Scott to see the film Saving Non-public Ryan. Within the movie show, Spacey allegedly started masturbating through the disturbing and graphic battle scene of the invasion of Normandy. After a number of moments, Spacey allegedly tried to tug Scott’s hand into his lap to take over. Scott described feeling disgrace within the second. “You’re feeling such as you did one thing incorrect … such as you introduced it on your self.” At a special time, Spacey allegedly manipulated Scott into becoming a member of him alone in a lodge room earlier than making undesirable sexual advances, implying to Scott that buying and selling sexual favors for profession development was all a routine a part of the Hollywood casting sofa.

As a younger appearing skilled, Jesse interned on the set of The Huge Kahuna. Jesse claimed that Spacey would “kidnap me off set to run traces” and provoke undesirable bodily contact. “It felt like as a result of I used to be straight it was extra of a problem,” Jesse stated within the documentary Spacey Unmasked.  He additionally described a whisper community throughout the crew, during which he realized that “everyone is aware of in the event you don’t wish to go dwelling with Kevin, don’t be the final man in a bar with him.” 

After weeks of alleged escalating nonconsensual sexual advances, Spacey allegedly assaulted Jesse on the movie wrap get together by following him into a rest room, exposing himself, and forcibly kissing him. “I used to be in shock for months,” Jesse recollects. Within the early 2000s, Spacey allegedly invited Jesse to a lodge room and nonconsensually uncovered himself to Jesse earlier than coercing him into touching him briefly; Jesse panicked and ran out of the room. 

A 3rd alleged encounter during which Jesse says he tried however did not carry out a sexual act for Spacey resulted in Jesse realizing that Spacey had no real interest in truly serving to him and his profession. This led to a ultimate cellphone name during which Jesse rejected Spacey, which allegedly led to Spacey screaming at him.

An nameless journalist gave an in depth account to BuzzFeed of an alleged incident that occurred in London through the early 2000s, when the journalist was in his early 20s. The journalist was assigned to interview Spacey at his workplace on the Previous Vic; after the interview, Spacey allegedly invited the journalist to hang around with him and a few pals at a membership, the place he allegedly groped the journalist “aggressively” regardless of repeated makes an attempt to get him to cease. When the journalist advised Spacey he was in a dedicated relationship with a lady, it appeared to make no distinction; when he tried to go away, Spacey allegedly implored him to remain. “He had someway satisfied himself that this was a sexual liaison that we each needed,” the journalist advised BuzzFeed.

Lastly, the journalist stated, Spacey tried to stop him from leaving:

The journalist stated he reported the incident to his editor, who confirmed as a lot to BuzzFeed, and the story in the end ran and not using a byline. The journalist advised BuzzFeed {that a} main concern that prevented him from going public with the incident was his worry of outing Spacey as homosexual. “Being closeted has for him enabled him to make use of this privateness declare as a protect in opposition to anyone wanting carefully at his precise habits,” he stated.

Seth, a pupil at Juilliard, alleged in Spacey Unmasked that through the mid-2000s, whereas Spacey was a visitor trainer on the college, he used the pretext {of professional} mentoring to attend a theater efficiency with Seth. All through the efficiency, Spacey allegedly nonconsensually touched Seth, together with on his inside thigh. “I felt this was about pursuit and intercourse,” Seth stated.

Director Tony Montana was the second particular person to publicly come ahead with an allegation in opposition to Spacey. On October 31, 2017, he advised the gossip web site Radar On-line that Spacey bodily assaulted him in 2003, when Montana was in his 30s. Montana alleges that Spacey approached him in a bar, groped him, and stated, “this designates possession,” as he did so. “I had PTSD for six months after” the incident, Montana stated.

In 2003, in response to the Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked, Spacey allegedly assaulted a younger Previous Vic usher named Danny. In the course of a family-oriented pantomime efficiency of Cinderella, Spacey allegedly bodily wedged himself right into a small hole between the wall and the seat Danny used as an usher. Then he allegedly sexually assaulted Danny by pushing his groin into Danny’s face. Danny froze and reported being scared to come back to work. After the incident, Spacey would allegedly continuously nonconsensually contact Danny in a sexual method, together with one time during which Spacey allegedly touched him within his pants.

In Spacey Unmasked, Wade, an aspiring actor, alleged that Spacey manipulated him into being in a lodge room alone with him on the pretense of internet hosting a Golden Globes after-party. Wade says Spacey made an undesirable sexual advance, though he allegedly knew Wade was straight, then locked the door when Wade stated he needed to go away. With a purpose to depart with out offending Spacey and doubtlessly harming his personal profession, Wade claims he theatrically kissed Spacey earlier than fleeing.

In line with the BBC, Belfast bartender Kris Nixon met Spacey in 2007 whereas Nixon was working at a cocktail bar in London close to the Previous Vic. In a videotaped interview, Nixon alleged that after attending a celebration at Spacey’s penthouse, “Kevin Spacey sat down subsequent to me on a settee, then reached over and grabbed my penis,” declaring to Nixon, “I may fuck you higher than [Nixon’s girlfriend, who was also in attendance].”

Nixon claimed that he left the get together instantly however encountered Spacey once more two weeks later whereas he was on shift on the bar the place he’d first met Spacey. Nixon alleges that Spacey adopted him right down to a basement storeroom and cornered him, grabbing him by the waistband and providing to “make it as much as [him].”

“I didn’t converse out on the time as a result of I didn’t suppose anybody would consider me,” Nixon stated, including that he “[didn’t] wish to danger getting fired.” Nixon advised the BBC that by coming ahead, Rapp has made it doable for others to talk out. “Now that it’s turn out to be clear that this can be a sample of habits,” he stated, “I really feel I’ve a duty to say what occurred, in order that different individuals, who possibly don’t but really feel able to talk out, really feel empowered to take action.”

Ari Behn is a Norwegian author who was married to Princess Märtha Louise when he attended the 14th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Live performance in Oslo in December 2007. The live performance was hosted by Spacey and Uma Thurman.

Afterward, in response to an on-air interview Behn gave to the Norwegian radio community P4 on December 5, 2017, Spacey and Behn attended an afterparty at a nightclub, the place they have been seated subsequent to one another.

“After 5 minutes, he says, ‘Hey, let’s exit and have a cigarette,’” Behn recalled, saying that Spacey then allegedly reached “below the desk” and groped his genitals.

Behn stated he responded with, “Eh, possibly later,” and declined the invitation. He appeared to snicker off the incident.

In 2019, Behn died by suicide. He was 47.

In a bit he wrote for BuzzFeed, actor Harry Dreyfuss alleged that Spacey groped him when he was 18 years outdated, recalling an incident that befell whereas he was serving to his father, the actor Richard Dreyfuss, rehearse for a play at Spacey’s London condo.

In a really detailed account, Dreyfuss alleged that Spacey touched him inappropriately all through the rehearsal, and describes his failed makes an attempt to cease Spacey from fondling him with out disrupting the rehearsal or alerting his father. Pondering again to what was going by his head on the time, Dreyfuss writes:

“On reflection, what disgusts me about Kevin was how protected he did really feel,” Dreyfuss concluded. “He knew he may fondle me in a room with my father and that I wouldn’t say a phrase.”

Spacey denied Dreyfuss’s allegations by way of his lawyer.

In line with Selection in 2017, Scotland Yard started an investigation right into a declare {that a} man who’s believed to be Spacey assaulted a 23-year-old bartender in London in 2008. “On 1 November, Metropolis of London police referred an allegation of sexual assault to the Metropolitan police service,” a Scotland Yard spokesperson stated in a press assertion launched November 3, 2017. “It’s alleged a person assaulted one other man in 2008 in Lambeth. Officers from the kid abuse and sexual offences command are investigating.”

Although Scotland Yard has not named Spacey because the alleged perpetrator, Selection notes that the incident being investigated befell within the South London neighborhood of Lambeth, the place Spacey maintains a house. The main points, which have been first reported by the British tabloid the Solar, allegedly contain the sufferer approaching Spacey to ask for assist together with his profession, passing out after smoking weed at Spacey’s condo, and waking as much as discover Spacey performing oral intercourse on him. The person, who was then 32, is alleged to have reported the incident to police in early November 2017, after different allegations in opposition to Spacey turned public.

A British bartender named Daniel Beal advised the Solar that Spacey allegedly flashed his genitals at him in 2010, whereas Beal was working at a bar in West Sussex. Beal, then 19, photographed himself on the time carrying an costly watch, which was allegedly given to him by Spacey shortly after the incident. “Wanting again I notice it was to maintain me quiet,” Beal alleged.

Over time, a minimum of six completely different claims have surfaced from the Home of Playing cards set — two from CNN in 2017, two extra revealed in a 2021 arbitration, and a ultimate two coming within the documentary Spacey Unmasked.

Per CNN, Spacey allegedly harassed a Home of Playing cards manufacturing assistant for months earlier than allegedly assaulting him. Spacey allegedly sexually assaulted the manufacturing assistant whereas the assistant was driving Spacey to the set. The crew member didn’t report this.

Moreover, a special nameless crew member stated Spacey allegedly routinely touched him inappropriately all through the six seasons he labored on set, and that he didn’t “really feel comfy” asking Spacey to cease.

In line with a 2021 arbitration, Spacey allegedly groped a “20-something” manufacturing assistant, once more whereas the assistant was driving. The arbitration additionally claimed that in a later season of the present, Spacey lured an actor to the Getty Middle, discovered an empty room, and started groping him. The actor obtained away and hailed an Uber so as to depart the scenario. Spacey was in the end held liable for violating his contract’s requirement for skilled habits on set. He was ordered to pay over $30 million to the manufacturing due to the prices incurred by his habits on the set over 5 seasons.

The documentary Spacey Unmasked unearthed two further claims of harassment. Daniel, a younger background actor on Home of Playing cards, alleged that he was nonconsensually groped by Spacey throughout filming. He spoke of his worry that Spacey would spoil his profession if he spoke out resulting from his energy and his position as govt producer on the present. A fellow actor on set, Daybreak, stated she noticed Daniel frantically attempting to “cover” from Spacey at one level.

Moreover, one manufacturing workers member corroborated witnessing Spacey allegedly behaving inappropriately on set. The workers member, Evelyn, described Spacey’s habits as “grabby flirtatiousness” with different actors “if he felt like he may get away with it.” She claimed Spacey made a number of crew members “uncomfortable.” The Hollywood Reporter additional alleged that Spacey had been recorded “making sexual overtures towards crew members.”

An nameless actor alleged in 2017 that Spacey “repeatedly sexually assaulted him in a public place in 2013” and handled the Previous Vic “like a playground.”

The ultimate alleged assault cited within the Spacey Unmasked documentary occurred in 2013 throughout a manufacturing of Candy Chicken of Youth on the Previous Vic. An actor named Ruari claims Spacey sexually assaulted him throughout a press evening for the play on the Savoy. Ruari alleges that Spacey, in entrance of legions of photographers, digitally penetrated him by his garments. Ruari froze through the alleged assault. He later stopped auditioning and fell into “habit points and relationship points.”

Heather Unruh, a former information anchor for the Boston information outlet WVCB, was one of many first individuals to say Spacey within the wake of the Weinstein allegations, when her October 13, 2017, tweet that the actor had assaulted a liked one went viral. At a press convention in Boston on November 8, 2017, Unruh alleged that Spacey got here on to her then-18-year-old son at a restaurant in Nantucket.

In line with Unruh, Spacey encountered her son at Nantucket’s Membership Automotive Restaurant in July 2016. Spacey “purchased [her underage son] drink after drink after drink,” then allegedly sexually assaulted him. “Spacey caught his hand inside my son’s pants and grabbed his genitals,” Unruh alleged. “My son’s efforts to shift his physique to take away Spacey’s hand have been solely momentarily profitable. My son panicked, he froze. He was intoxicated.”

Unruh claims that after Spacey allegedly repeatedly pressured her son to attend a celebration with him, Spacey obtained as much as go to the lavatory, at which level a lady on the bar approached her “very shaken” son and advised him to “run.” Her son left, and disclosed the incident to his sister and Unruh later that evening.

Unruh acknowledged that her son had filed a police report in opposition to Spacey with the Nantucket Police Division. A spokesperson for the Cape and Islands District Legal professional’s Workplace advised Boston.com that “a person has supplied data to the Nantucket Police relating to an allegation of an indecent assault and battery” however didn’t present additional particulars. On December 24, 2018, information broke that Spacey would face arraignment on a depend of sexual assault in Nantucket District Court docket.

On July 17, 2019, the costs in opposition to Spacey have been dismissed by the court docket after Unruh’s son invoked his Fifth Modification proper to not testify in regards to the whereabouts of a cellphone that Spacey’s legal professional argued contained messages related to the case. The court docket determined the case in opposition to Spacey couldn’t proceed with out the plaintiff’s testimony on this topic.

In July 2018, in response to Selection, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division referred an investigation of an alleged assault by Spacey to the Los Angeles district legal professional. The accuser, an unnamed therapeutic massage therapist, later filed a lawsuit in opposition to Spacey, claiming Spacey had compelled him to seize Spacey’s genitals whereas he was working at a non-public Malibu residence. In line with the Hollywood Reporter, Spacey allegedly tried a number of occasions to provoke sexual exercise with the person, together with forcing him to therapeutic massage his groin through the therapeutic massage session. Spacey then allegedly repeatedly tried to stop the person from leaving.

In 2019, whereas each the lawsuit and the felony investigations have been nonetheless pending, the accuser died of most cancers. The district legal professional subsequently declined to pursue the costs.

In 2021, the Hollywood Reporter reported that two completely different therapeutic massage companies, the app Soothe and the chain Burke Williams, had each banned Spacey from reserving appointments due to a previous historical past of allegedly assaulting their workers members.

Selection reported that in August 2018, the Los Angeles district legal professional’s workplace obtained a brand new investigation referral from the sheriff’s workplace into an allegation in opposition to Spacey. No data was accessible in regards to the date, particulars, or alleged sufferer of the incident. It’s unclear whether or not this investigation is linked to a minimum of two different investigations referred to the DA involving Spacey. As Selection famous, the DA has but to pursue any of the costs.

Spacey has frequently denied almost all the allegations in opposition to him whereas creating the impression that a few of the alleged encounters are merely fumbling or socially awkward misunderstandings. He got here out as homosexual in response to Rapp’s preliminary allegations, which many individuals noticed as an try at deflection, and subsequently remained defiant because the litany of accusations piled up. 

Then there was the weird 2018 video during which he role-played his former Home of Playing cards character Frank Underwood. In language that recollects a number of of the extra disturbing allegations of nonconsensual bodily assault made in opposition to Spacey, the actor appears to inform the viewers that he’s making a comeback, no matter what they are saying they need: “We’re not completed, it doesn’t matter what anybody says. And moreover, I do know what you need. You need me again.” Spacey launched extra distasteful movies every subsequent 12 months by 2021, then returned in 2023 alongside Tucker Carlson. Within the newest video, he claimed that the allegations in opposition to him had been “confirmed false.”

Spacey is removed from the one alleged sexual predator in Hollywood, or the one one who’s led a profitable profession regardless of his habits apparently being an open secret. And whereas a few of the strongest males within the trade — together with Weinstein and former CBS head Les Moonves — have seen their careers topple, others stay largely unscathed by allegations in opposition to them. Spacey’s repeated diminishment of the excessive variety of allegations in opposition to him recommend that he has but to totally settle for both the truth of his personal actions or any duty for the hurt he has allegedly precipitated. And regardless of the overwhelming quantity of people that’ve spoken out in opposition to him, he appears to really feel entitled to a comeback.

It’s extremely unlikely he’ll get one. However his confidence is a telling assertion about an leisure trade that for therefore lengthy has allowed highly effective males to function with impunity — one which allowed him to allegedly prey on targets for many years with no repercussions, and that would nonetheless harbor many predators in its midst.

Vox has reached out to Spacey’s representatives for remark however has obtained no response.

Replace, June 5, 2024: This story was initially revealed in 2017 and has been up to date a number of occasions, most not too long ago to incorporate further allegations in opposition to Spacey, details about the documentary Spacey Unmasked, and the outcomes of two trials.