An alleged victim of Kevin Spacey on Wednesday reported the star’s “very aggressive” behavior but said he dared not denounce the actor, who was “a huge hit” at the time during his trial in London on multiple sexual assault charges.
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The 63-year-old actor, who was on trial last week, pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of sexually assaulting four men between 2001 and 2013, including since 2004 when he was manager of London’s Old Vic theatre.
The victim, a man who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told how “very cocky” and “alcohol smelling” Kevin Spacey punched him in the crotch with such force in a police interview that aired Wednesday during the trial grabbed that it was really painful.
This attack would have taken place in a London theater in 2005. The alleged victim was 28 years old. “It was very aggressive. “I’d never heard anyone talk to me like that before,” he said, adding that the actor justified himself by telling him “I’m gay.”
Like the other three alleged victims, this man only reported the actor when the #MeToo movement broke out in 2017.
“He had enormous success,” he was considered a “golden boy,” he explained.
During this interrogation, the police asked him why he finally decided to testify. “I hope he’s doing the right thing and if he apologizes I might not take him to court,” he replied.
“But he still doesn’t understand that what he did was wrong,” he said, saying it “motivated him” to speak out.
At the time, “I put[that story]in a box and got on with my life, but it had negative consequences for my life and work,” said this man.
The trial began last week at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Kevin Spacey, who appears at liberty, denied these allegations, saying some were fabricated and others were consensual.
The trial of the American actor, who won two Oscars for his roles in American Beauty and Usual Suspects, is set to last a month.