Kevin Spacey - The African Mirror

Jul

2023

Kevin Spacey tells London court sexual assault accusation is ‘absolute bollocks’

KEVIN Spacey described an allegation he grabbed a man's crotch as "absolute bollocks", in combative exchanges with prosecutors at the Oscar-winning actor's sexual assault trial. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to 12 charges of sexual offences allegedly committed against four men in Britain between 2001 and 2013. The offences allegedly took place at a time when he was mainly living and working in Britain, including from 2003 as artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London. The four accusers have said Spacey aggressively groped them and, in the case of one complainant, performed oral sex…

Jul

2023

By SAM TOBIN

Kevin Spacey may have drugged alleged victim before assault, UK court told

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AN alleged victim of Kevin Spacey told a London court that he believes the Oscar-winning U.S. actor drugged him before performing oral sex on him after he had passed out. Spacey is on trial at London's Southwark Crown Court on a dozen charges of historic sex offences against four men, then aged in their 20s and 30s, between 2001 and 2013. The 63-year-old has denied all the charges and his lawyer Patrick Gibbs said at the start of the trial that the jury were going to hear some "damned lies". The trial, entering its third week on Monday, heard the…

Jul

2023

By MICHAEL HOLDEN

U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told

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KEVIN Spacey is an aggressive "sexual bully" who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said at the start of the Oscar-winning U.S. actor's trial on sex offence charges. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen allegations of historic sex offences committed against four men, then aged in their 20s and 30s, which are said to have taken place between 2001 and 2013. His lawyer said the claims were "damned lies". Opening the prosecution case at London's Southwark Crown Court, lawyer Christine Agnew told the jury the "predatory" Spacey was…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Kevin Spacey tells people who are struggling ‘It does get better’

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OSCAR-winner Kevin Spacey has appealed to people who were struggling with shame or depression not to take their own lives. Spacey, who has largely disappeared from public view since being accused of sexual misconduct three years ago, made the plea in a Christmas Eve video titled "1-800 Xmas" that he posted on YouTube. Filming himself walking in a park, Spacey said a lot of people had reached out to him in 2020 to share their struggles and some had spoken about wanting to end their lives. "If you're suffering, if you need help, if you feel guilt or shame, if…