{"id":103241,"date":"2022-10-21T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jury-kevin-spacey-didnt-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-in-1986\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:35:03","slug":"jury-kevin-spacey-didnt-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jury-kevin-spacey-didnt-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury: Kevin Spacey didn’t molest actor Anthony Rapp in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the arguments that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1986.<\/p>\n

The verdict in the civil trial came with lightning speed. Jurors at a federal court in New York deliberated for a little more than an hour before deciding that Rapp hadn’t proven his.<\/p>\n

When the verdict was read, Spacey dropped his head, then hugged his lawyers. He didn’t speak to reporters as he left the courthouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re very grateful to the jury for seeing through these false,\u201d said his attorney, Jennifer Keller.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat’s next is Mr. Spacey is going to be proven that he’s innocent of anything he’s been accused of. That was truth to any added of the misconduct, \u201dshe criminal claims, a reference to other sexual against the actor, including charges in England.<\/p>\n

During the trial, Rapp tested that Spacey had invited him to his apartment for a party, then approached him in a bedroom after the other guests left. He said the actor, then 26, picked him up and laid partially on top of him on a bed before he wriggled away and fled as an inebriated Spacey asked if he was sure he wanted to leave.<\/p>\n

In his sometimes-tearful testimony, Spacey told the jury it never happened, and he would never have been attracted to someone who was 14.<\/p>\n

The lawsuits sought $40 million in damages.<\/p>\n

Rapp and his lawyers also left the courthouse without speaking to reporters. In his closing statements to the jury Thursday, Rapp’s lawyer, Richard Steigman, accused Spacey of lying on the witness stand. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe lacks credibility,\u201d Steigman said. \u201cSometimes the simple truth is the best. The simple truth is that this happened.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rapp, 50, and Spacey, 63, each tested over several days at the three-week trial. <\/p>\n

Rapp’s claims, and those of others, abruptly interrupted what had been a soaring career for the two-time Academy Award winning actor, who lost his job on the Netflix series \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d and saw other opportunities dry up. Rapp is a regular on TV’s \u201cStar Trek: Discovery\u201d and was part of the original Broadway cast of \u201cRent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spacey faced in Massachusetts that he groped a man at a bar \u2014 charges that were later dropped by prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Three months ago, he pleaded not guilty in London to charges that he sexually assaulted three men between 2004 and 2015 when he was the artistic director at the Old Vic theater in London.<\/p>\n

A judge in Los Angeles this summer approved an arbitrator’s decision to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press does not usually name people alleging sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Rapp has done.<\/p>\n

At the trial, Spacey tested that he was sure the encounter with Rapp never happened, in part because he was living in a studio apartment rather than the one bedroom that Rapp cited, and he never had a gathering beyond a housewarming party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wouldn’t have any sexual interest in Anthony Rapp or any child. That I knew,\u201d he told judges.<\/p>\n

During her closing arguments to the jury, Keller suggested reasons Rapp imagined the encounter with Spacey or made it up.<\/p>\n

It was possible, she said, that Rapp invented it based on his experience performing in \u201cPrecious Sons,\u201d a play in which actor Ed Harris picks up Rapp’s character and lays on top of him, mistaking him briefly for his wife before discovering it is his last.<\/p>\n

She also suggested that Rapp later grew jealous that Spacey became a megastar while Rapp had \u201csmaller roles in small shows\u201d after his breakthrough performance in Broadway’s \u201cRent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFame did not follow him,\u201d Keller said. \u201cMr. Rapp’s coach has turned into a pumpkin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo here we are today and Mr. Rapp is getting more attention from this trial than he has in his entire acting life,\u201d Keller said. She said Rapp is well known now because he’s taken down one of Hollywood’s biggest actors.<\/p>\n

During two days of testimony, Spacey expressed regret for a 2017 statement he issued when Rapp first went public, in which he said he didn’t recall the encounter, but if it happened \u201cI owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dabbing his eyes with a tissue, Spacey said he’d been pressured by publicists and lawyers into issuing an empathetic statement at a time when the #MeToo movement made everyone in the industry nervous.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve learned a lesson, which is never apologize for something you didn’t do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also cried as he said he regretted revealing publicly that he was gay the same day Rapp’s accusations surfaced because some interpreted his announcement as an effort to change the subject or deflect from Rapp’s revelations.<\/p>\n

Spacey had testified that he spoke at the trial about deeply personal matters, telling the jury his father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi who berated him as gay because he liked the theater. <\/p>\n

Spacey also gave courtroom spectators a brief taste of his acting chops when he imitated his Broadway costar at the time, Jack Lemmon. He had testified earlier that his ability at impressions aided him in his acting career.<\/p>\n

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This story has been updated to correct the day of the week in the lead paragraph to Thursday, not Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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