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Kevin Spacey is maintaining his innocence.
While taking the basal successful his sexual misconduct civilian trial, the House of Cards actor denied ever groping Anthony Rapp, calling the allegations "not true," according to NBC News.
Rapp, 50, filed the suit successful 2020 and is seeking compensatory and punitive damages up to $40 million. No transgression charges are involved.
During his testimony, Spacey, 63, besides spoke astir his puerility and his rocky narration with his father, calling his upbringing "humiliating and terrifying," per Deadline.
"My begetter was a achromatic supremacist and neo-Nazi," Spacey told the court, detailing however helium was "forced to perceive to hours and hours and hours" of his parent's hateful rhetoric. He also said helium was excessively ashamed to bring implicit friends from schoolhouse due to the fact that helium was disquieted his begetter would spell connected a racist tirade.
He reportedly added, "I person ne'er talked astir these things publicly. Ever,"
Spacey—who Rapp antecedently called a "fraud" for not coming retired arsenic cheery until 2017—testified that helium besides grappled with his sexuality due to the fact that his father's far-right views.
"My begetter utilized to outcry astatine maine astir the thought I mightiness beryllium gay," helium continued. "He would shriek astatine me: ‘don't beryllium a'… helium would usage an f connection that was precise derogatory to the cheery community."
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Addressing Rapp's "fraud" claim, Spacey insisted helium wasn't being dishonest astir who helium was, conscionable protective of himself.
"To telephone idiosyncratic a 'fraud' is to, I guess, accidental that you deliberation they are surviving a lie," helium said, according to NBC News. "I wasn't surviving a lie. I was conscionable reluctant to speech astir my idiosyncratic life."
Spacey added, "We person to person empathy... for everyone's process of coming out."
Rapp archetypal came guardant with his sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey successful a 2017 BuzzFeed News article, publically accusing the star of making unwanted intersexual advances successful 1986 erstwhile Rapp was conscionable 14 years old. The Rent alum alleged that Spacey, past 26 years old, had invited him to a enactment astatine his spot backmost successful New York City wherever Spacey past enactment his assemblage connected apical of his successful a intersexual mode astatine the gathering, which Rapp besides testified astir successful tribunal connected Oct. 11.
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In effect to the Buzzfeed article, Spacey issued a statement connected Twitter saying helium didn't retrieve the encounter, but wrote that "if I did behave past arsenic helium describes, I beryllium him the sincerest apology for what would person been profoundly inappropriate drunken behavior."
However, during the 2022 trial, Spacey clarified that helium enactment retired the connection aft his publicity squad allegedly advised him that helium would beryllium labeled a unfortunate blamer if helium pushed back.
"I was being encouraged to apologize and I've learned a acquisition which is ne'er apologize for thing you didn't do," the histrion testified, according to CNN. "I regret my full statement."
While Rapp was the archetypal man to publically accuse Spacey of intersexual misconduct, helium was not the lone one. In 2018, Spacey faced a felony complaint of indecent battle and battery, to which helium plead not guilty. The charge was aboriginal dropped owed to the "unavailability of the complaining witness," according to tribunal documents obtained by E! News astatine the time.
Then, just this past May, the histrion was formally charged with 4 counts of intersexual assault against 3 men successful the United Kingdom. During his June 16 tribunal quality astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court, Spacey was granted unconditional bail.
One period later, according to NPR, Spacey pled not blameworthy to these charges.
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