US actor Kevin Spacey has been formally charged with 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males, UK police mentioned Monday.
Spacey is anticipated to look earlier than a London court docket on Thursday morning. The felony expenses had been first introduced on the finish of Might when the Crown Prosecution Service gave its authorization.
Moreover the sexual assault expenses, the 62-year-old actor “has additionally been charged with inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned.
The fees date again to incidents that happened between 2003 and 2013. The investigation by the Metropolitan Police started following allegations that got here out through the #metoo motion.
Expenses from #metoo allegations
Spacey is among the most high-profile figures to be accused of sexual assault through the #metoo motion, becoming a member of the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Invoice Cosby.
The actor has denied the allegations, nevertheless, the accusation in 2017 by fellow actor Anthony Rapp that Spacey assaulted him at a celebration within the Nineteen Eighties when Rapp was a young person, introduced Spacey’s profession to a halt.
The Outdated Vic theater in London, the place Spacey had been creative director between 2004 and 2015, mentioned in 2017 that it had acquired allegations of inappropriate habits from 20 males who had come into contact with the actor on the theater between 1995 and 2013.
British police first questioned him in 2019. The 2-time Oscar winner has beforehand mentioned that he’ll voluntarily seem in court docket to face the fees.
A US court docket ordered Spacey to pay $31 million (€29.7 million) to the producers of the present “Home of Playing cards” which he had been starring in when the allegations had been made public.
The corporate behind the sequence mentioned that he had “breached” its harassment coverage which had pressured them to fireplace him and minimize quick the ultimate season of the present, for which they incurred monetary losses.
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