British prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.
The Crown Prosecutor’s Office said Spacey “has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.”
The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in the west of England in April 2013.
British prosecutors say on Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men (AP / AAP)
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s Special Crimes Division, said the charges follow a review of evidence gathered by the London Metropolitan Police.
Spacey, a 62-year-old Academy Award double, was questioned by British police in 2019 over the allegations of several men who had assaulted them.
The former House of Cards star directed London’s Old Vic Theater between 2004 and 2015.
Spacey won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the 1995 film The Usual Suspects and an Oscar for Lead Actor for the 1999 film American Beauty.
A criminal case was filed against him, indecent assault and a battery charge resulting from the alleged palpitations of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket complex (AP / AAP).
His celebrated career was abruptly interrupted in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a party in the 1980s, when Rapp was a teenager. Spacey denies the allegations.
The charges were announced as Spacey testified in a New York City courtroom in the civil lawsuit filed by Rapp. He was in the witness stand Thursday and was not immediately available for comment.
In 2019, Massachusetts prosecutors dismissed a criminal case filed against him, indecent assault and a battery charge stemming from the alleged palpitations of an 18-year-old man in a Nantucket complex.