Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE is an American actor and producer. He began his profession as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television.
Kevin Spacey appeared today at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court where the actor claimed not guilty to four accounts of sexually assaulting three men. He entered an extra plea of not guilty to a charge of causing a person to employ in a penetrative sexual movement without consent.
Spacey’s trial, which will likely be held in the Old Bailey, is scheduled to begin June 6, 2023, and will last for three to four weeks. A further hearing will be held prior at some point earlier in 2023. The judge has given Spacey unquestioning bail until then.
The 62-year-old actor has been accused of attacking three men in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, during which was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London. He was formally charged after voluntarily entering the U.K. last month.
The five charges include two counts of sexual assault on a man in London in March 2005, sexual assault on a man and causing him to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, in London in August 2008, and sexual assault on a man in Gloucestershire in April 2013. During a hearing last month at the Westminster magistrates court, Spacey’s lawyer, Patrick Gibbs QC, assured that the actor strenuously renounces any and all criminality in this case.
Along with the criminal charges in the U.K., Spacey is facing a case filed by Anthony Rapp, who was the first person to publicly accuse the actor of sexual misconduct in 2017. Rapp sued Spacey in Sept. 2020, claiming the actor assaulted him in a Manhattan apartment after befriending him while they both worked on Broadway. Rapp claimed a visibly intoxicated Spacey picked him up, put him on a bed, climbed on top of him, and made sexual advances before Rapp was able to flee. Spacey has renounced the allegations.
In recent months, Spacey has also begun trying to return to professional acting. Peter Five Eight, a noir drama with Spacey’s first starring role since his career came to a halt in 2017.
