Fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey, in a civil trial in New York, was confronted on Friday by American comedian Anthony Rapp, who accused him of sexual assault when he was 14 in 1986 and is now asking for $40 million.
Five years after the #Metoo wave that swept the two-time Oscar-winning movie star in the fall of 2017, her accuser Anthony Rapp, 50, told a Manhattan Civil Court jury about her “disturbing” veiled at 35 years.
14 and 27 years old
Rapp was then 14 years old and a trainee actor on Broadway. Spacey is also a young stage actor, an almost unknown at just 27 years old. Teenage Rapp and young Spacey meet backstage at a New York theater, and the latter invites him a week later to dinner with friends at his Manhattan studio.
Once the guests have left the small party, Rapp remains sitting on the edge of the bed, with the television on. Kevin Spacey “came up to me, kind of hesitantly, picked me up like a boyfriend picks up his girlfriend,” Anthony Rapp testified on the second day of the civil trial.
According to a statement from Rapp last June, Spacey had “picked him up” and “his hand (had) ‘rubbed’ the garment covering his buttocks for a few seconds.” Spacey had then “laid Rapp on the bed, on his back, before going to bed fully clothed, briefly, next to and on top of” him.
prescribed facts
On Friday, Anthony Rapp repeated that Kevin Spacey hugged him and felt “his groin” against his teenage body. “I felt like it was going on for a long time, I felt paralyzed,” said the actor of the series with a trembling voice. Star Trek: Discoverywho had managed to “untangle” himself and leave the study.
Rapp’s attorney, Peter Saghir, on Thursday accused the actor of usual suspects Y house of cards of having “deliberately” sought this afternoon in 1986 to “satisfy his sexual desires”. But in this civil lawsuit -the criminal procedure had been abandoned after Rapp’s complaint in September 2020-, the initial charge of “sexual assault” was not retained by the US federal justice.
The facts are considered time-barred and outside the scope of a 2019 New York State child protection law, which may extend the statute of limitations. Justice has retained the charge of “damaging the physical integrity” of Anthony Rapp by having caused him “emotional anguish”.
Source: BFM TV
