American actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty to seven new UK sexual assault charges on Friday, months after previously denying other similar charges.
The 63-year-old Hollywood star, who attended this hearing at Southwark Court in London via video link, is accused of sexually assaulting a man between 2001 and 2004, with her trial scheduled for June.
Kevin Spacey is specifically accused of forcing this man into “non-consensual sexual relations”, the Crown Prosecution Service said in November when it authorized police to add these new charges to the actor’s already heavy file.
Four sexual assaults
The two-time Oscar winner (for American Beauty Y usual suspects) has already been prosecuted for four sexual assaults on three men between March 2005 and April 2013, when he was director of the Old Vic theater in London.
Heard in July during a hearing for which he had made the trip to London, he had also pleaded not guilty.
In total, therefore, he now must answer for 12 charges related to accusations of sexual assault against four men between 2001 and 2013.
Harassment
The trial of the actor scheduled for next June and which should last a month, will deal with all these cases. A due process hearing is scheduled for April 5.
Kevin Spacey, whose career has been largely put on hold by these cases, also faced charges in the United States.
Last October, a New York civil court found him not guilty of sexual assault.
He had also been charged with indecent assault and sexual assault on an 18-year-old boy in a bar in the state of Massachusetts, on the East Coast. The charges were dropped in July 2019.
Source: BFM TV
