Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges in U.K. court
Actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible on Thursday to expenses of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past.
Spacey, 62, spoke clearly as he denied 5 expenses throughout a listening to at London’s Central Prison Court docket.
Decide Mark Wall set a date of June 6, 2023, for the trial to start out and stated it might final three to 4 weeks.
The previous Home of Playing cards star, who ran London’s Previous Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015, denied 4 counts of sexual assault and one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The incidents allegedly happened in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims are actually of their 30s and 40s.
Spacey’s lawyer beforehand stated the actor “strenuously denies” the allegations.
Spacey was granted bail and allowed to return to the US after a preliminary listening to final month. The decide continued the actor’s unconditional bail on Thursday, and stated one other pretrial listening to can be held early in 2023.
Spacey thanked the decide on the finish of the 15-minute listening to. He made no remark as he left courtroom and was ushered via a crowd of photographers and digital camera crews right into a chauffeur-driven automobile.
He gained a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie The Common Suspects and an Oscar for lead actor for the 1999 film American Magnificence.
However his celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Nineteen Eighties, when Rapp was an adolescent. Spacey denies the allegations.
