This June 3, 2019 archive photo shows Kevin Spacey at a pre-trial hearing in Nantucket. Steven Senne / AP
London – British Crown Prosecution Service has charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the service said in a statement on Thursday. He was also charged with a fifth charge of “causing a person to engage in penetrating sexual activity without consent,” related to one of the three men.
The first two alleged assaults took place in London in March 2005 against the same man, who is now 40 years old. The third alleged assault and the charge of engaging in sexual activity without consent are related to an incident in August 2008 in London against a separated man who is now 30 years old. A fourth alleged assault took place against a third man, now 30, in Gloucestershire in 2013.
“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr. Spacey are active and that he is entitled to a fair trial,” the CPS said in a statement, calling for “no complaints, comments or online information sharing that could in no way harm this procedure. “
In 2017, after American actor Anthony Rapp alleged that when he was 14 years old, Spacey had climbed on top of him in bed, numerous allegations of aggression and misconduct against Spacey were filed. .
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The Old Vic Theater in London, where Spacey was artistic director for 11 years until 2015, said two years after his departure that during his own investigation into his behavior, he had received 20 allegations of misconduct and encourage 14 of the people who did. complaints to go to the police.
These allegations included interactions between 1995 and 2013, all related to men. The alleged incidents ranged from behavior that made people feel uncomfortable to touching themselves “sexually inappropriate”, but the theater did not report any allegations of rape.
In 2019, Massachusetts prosecutors dropped a case of palpitations against Spacey, who had faced a felony count of indecent assault and assault. The district attorney said he was abandoning the case “because of the unavailability of the reporting witness.”
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Spacey was accused of palpating an 18-year-old at a bar three years earlier. The prosecutor said Spacey bought him several alcoholic beverages and then palpated him.
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Haley Ott is a London-based digital journalist / producer for CBS News.