Actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past, in accordance to the Associated Press.
Speaking clearly, the previous “House of Cards” star whose identify was given as Kevin Spacey Fowler, stated “not guilty” when every of the charges have been put to him at London’s Central Criminal Court, often known as the Old Bailey.
Wearing glasses and a lightweight blue swimsuit, two-time Oscar winner, sat impassively within the dock throughout the 20-minute listening to as a trial date of June 6 subsequent 12 months was agreed.
“Thank you my Lord,” he instructed the choose at the tip of the listening to after he was granted unconditional bail.
It was his the possibility to formally reply 5 charges relating to offenses towards the lads.
Spacey, 62, was charged in mid-June with 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males, and one cost of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service stated in a news launch earlier this 12 months, that the offenses came about between 2005 and 2013 in London and Gloucestershire, a county round 100 miles west of the British capital. The victims at the moment are of their 30s and 40s.
Spacey’s lawyer beforehand stated that his consumer “strenuously denies” the allegations and in an announcement to NBC News in late May the actor stated he would “voluntarily appear“ at his court hearings and was “confident” he can show his innocence.
If convicted, Spacey may face six months imprisonment or a vast tremendous for every sexual assualt depend. The extra severe cost of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent might even see him face up to life in jail if discovered guilty.
The actor served because the creative director at London’s Old Vic Theater 2004 to 2015. An inner investigation at the theatre in 2017 noticed 20 former actors and personnel come ahead with related allegations of inappropriate and predatory conduct.
Spacey, who received a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film “American Beauty,” was granted bail and allowed to return to the United States after a preliminary listening to final month.
Spacey’s celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Nineteen Eighties, when Rapp was nonetheless a minor. Spacey denies the allegations.
The following 12 months, Spacey was charged with indecent assault in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in an incident involving the teenage son of a former Boston TV news anchor. Spacey pleaded not guilty, and the cost was dropped when the alleged sufferer withdrew a civil lawsuit.
The stream of allegations have derailed Spacey’s profession, and noticed him dropped from hit Netflix present “House of Cards“ and the Ridley Scott film “All the Money in the World.”
Reuters and Associated Press contributed.
