Kevin Spacey’s panorama is complicated following a new charge against him

New York. A witness at Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial in New York said Friday that the actor assaulted him in 1981, several years before the incident that is the focus of his accuser Anthony Rapp’s civil suit.

Rapp, also an actor and now 50, has accused Spacey, 63, of attempting to seduce and touch him with sexual intent at a party in 1986 when he was 14 and is seeking $40 million for psychological damages , which are said to have arisen from this incident.

On the second day of the trial, Rapp’s attorneys called Andrew Holtzman, a 68-year-old man then working at the Public Theater where he worked at the Shakespeare Festival, to test a pattern of what Spacey said was acting.

Holtzman recounted that in 1981 Spacey walked into his office with a visible erection and tried to force himself on him by grabbing his crotch and silently pinning him against the desk while Spacey tried to free himself and yelled at him, after which he left the office Office.

The witness, who clarified at the request of Spacey’s defense that he was 27 and the actor was 20 when the episode happened, affirmed that he was “shocked” and blamed himself for the experience of which he assured that he could not forget them not disclosed to the organization.

For their part, the defendant’s lawyers attempted to cast doubt on these memories by showing a movie magazine of the production Spacey was allegedly in and in which his photo did not appear anywhere.

Rapp took the stand and began answering questions about his family life before the court adjourned at midday, which is expected to resume testimony next Tuesday – Monday is a US public holiday.

The whistleblower, best known for his role on the series Star Trek: Discovery, publicly accused Spacey in 2017, at the height of the MeToo movement, and later sued him years later, taking advantage of a new New York law allowing victims of sexual abuse to have children go to court.