Kevin Spacey was acquitted of the 9 cases for sexual assault

American actor Kevin Spacey, accused of sexually assaulting four men in the United Kingdom, was found not guilty on Wednesday, following a jury trial that took place in the last month. The Oscar winner was acquitted of nine charges, including sexual assault, causing one person to have sex without consent and causing another to have penetrative sex. During the four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, prosecutors explained to jurors that the actor had aggressively groped three of the men in incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2013 in Britain, when he was working at London’s Old Vic theatre. Spacey burst into tears and thanked the jury of 6 women and 6 men. The news also comes on the day that the actor is turning 64. “I am enormously grateful to the jury who took the time to consider all the evidence and facts before making a decision and I accept today’s verdict with humility,” he told reporters waiting for them at the exit. Also in October 2020, the actor faced justice for the civil lawsuit of actor Anthony Rapp, who accused him of a sexual assault that occurred 38 years ago and claimed 40 million dollars for “emotional distress”. Rapp, 52, and Spacey, 65, each testified over several days in the three-week trial held in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Manhattan at the time. There the jury “declared the defendant not responsible” and considered that the complainant could not prove that Spacey had “touched a sexual or intimate part of the body”, which led Judge Lewis Kaplan to dismiss the civil case.During the proceedings, the actor pleaded at all times innocent of all accusations and affirmed for his part that all relations had been consensual and pointed out that some facts were even pure invention. of the complainants.

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