Emerson Phillips
Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent” by the Crown Prosecution Service in England.
Rosemary Ainslie is the head of the CPS’s Special Crime Division; she said in a statement that the charges were brought after an investigation by the Metropolitan police. Ainslie added that they stem from separate incidents alleged to have taken place against three men in 2005, 2008 and 2013 in both London and Gloucestershire.
Per the Washington Post, Spacey can only be formally charged upon arrest in England or Wales.
In 2016, Spacey was charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man, but prosecutors dropped the charge after the alleged victim refused to testify.
In 2017, actor Anthony Rapp publicly accused Spacey of sexually abusing him at a party in 1986 – Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26 at the time. Rapp is currently suing Spacey in federal court.
After BuzzFeed News reported Rapp’s allegation, Spacey issued a statement on social media saying he didn’t remember the encounter, but “if I did behave then as [Rapp] describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
More than a dozen others came forward with allegations against Spacey after Rapp, some of which resulted in legal action.
An anonymous masseur sued Spacey in 2019 for allegedly assaulting him during a massage, but the alleged victim died later that year. Spacey settled with the accuser’s family.
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