An alleged victim of Kevin Spacey recounted the star’s “very aggressive” behavior on Wednesday but said he did not dare to denounce the actor who was then “a huge success” during his trial in London for several sexual assaults. The 63-year-old actor, on trial last week, pleaded not guilty to 12 charges of sexually assaulting four men between 2001 and 2013, including from 2004 when he was manager of London’s Old Vic theatre.
The victim, a man who cannot be identified for legal reasons, recounted in a police interview aired Wednesday at trial how the “very cocky” and “smelling of alcohol” Kevin Spacey grabbed his crotch. with such force that it was really painful”. This attack would have happened in 2005 in a London theater. The alleged victim was 28 years old. “It was very aggressive. I had never heard anyone speak to me in this way” he indicated, adding that the actor would have justified himself by telling him “I am gay”.
Like the other three alleged victims, this man did not denounce the actor before the outbreak of the movement
The trial started last week at Southwark Crown Court in London. Kevin Spacey, who appears free, denied these accusations, believing that some were invented and that other acts were consented. The trial of the American actor, twice Oscar winner for his roles in American Beauty and Usual Suspects should last a month.
