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Kevin Spacey is facing a further seven sexual offense charges in the UK. The Crown Prosecution Service has authorized the charges, which are additional to the five he was charged with in June. The development comes after House of Cards and American Beauty and two-time Oscar winning actor Spacey…

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Kevin Spacey is set to take part in a public masterclass at Italy's National Museum of Cinema in Turin where he will also be awarded a lifetime achievement award. The two-time Academy Award winner will hold a public onstage conversation on January 16, 2023, with the museum's director Domenico De…

Anthony Rapp has issued a statement following his defeat today in a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey. The jury came in after just an hour of deliberations and found two-time Oscar winner Spacey not liable for damages. Addressing a crowd outside the Manhattan…

UPDATED with more details: The jury in Anthony Rapp's $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against Kevin Spacey has found the two-time Oscar winner not liable for damages today. They had deliberated for only an hour-plus, after eight days of testimony. As the verdict was read, a facemasked Spacey…

UPDATED, 12:20 PM: The civil trial in Anthony Rapp’s $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against Kevin Spacey is in the hands of the jury. In her closing argument, defense attorney Jennifer Keller revisited the lack of a separate bedroom in Spacey’s studio apartment, a room where Rapp alleges he…

UPDATED, 1:42 PM: With the jurors gone, Judge Lewis Kaplan and the lawyers in Anthony Rapp’s civil suit against Kevin Spacey trial spent their last hour in court Wednesday hashing out instructions and a verdict form for jurors, who will be hearing closing arguments beginning Thursday morning. In the back…

UPDATED with latest: Test results from a psychologist who diagnosed actor Anthony Rapp with post-traumatic stress disorder are so inconsistent they are “unusable,” a psychiatrist hired by actor Kevin Spacey's defense team testified Tuesday.  After Spacey finished testifying in Rapp's $40 million…

UPDATE, 9:59 AM: Over a week after Kevin Spacey's trial for sexual misconduct started in a New York courtroom, the Oscar winner took the stand this morning in his own defense. Having succeeded in having the intentional infliction of emotional distress claim stripped from Anthony Rapp's $40 million…

UPDATE, 1:10 PM: Kevin Spacey’s trial on sexual misconduct allegations will continue next week, maybe. Wrapping up today’s proceedings in New York City after a session that started with the ex-House of Cards star’s lead lawyer sidelined with Covid, federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the $40 million…

As she had done for most of Tuesday, Kevin Spacey’s lawyer Jennifer Keller today again sought to dragoon Anthony Rapp on the stand in the Star Trek: Discovery actor’s $40 million sexual misconduct case against the former House of Cards main man. Her cross-examination of Rapp lasted about an hour…

UPDATED with latest: To paraphrase the old Blondie song, Kevin Spacey's lawyers today tried to rip Anthony Rapp to shreds. Picking up on the core of her opening statement last week in the $40 million civil trial, Spacey attorney Jennifer Keller’s cross-examination repeatedly targeted apparent…