Kevin Spacey acquitted of all charges in London sex offense trial
Kevin Spacey acquitted of all charges in London sex offense trial
While he might have made a clumsy pass at one of the men, he said he had never assaulted anyone and suggested that the accusers had come forward to make money.
In the Rapp accusations he was found not legally liable too which is probably the right thing to do legally with the evidence at hand but the fact remains that there were two separate complaints (unrelated to the 9 in the UK) about him hitting on underage boys, you are allowed to think he's probably a creepy dude while agreeing that we don't want to put people in jail if we aren't certain they have committed a crime.
Wild. I remember back when these accusations first broke, someone linked to a since-deactivated Reddit account that commented with very serious accusations about him being a pedophile. The original comment was posted back in 2012/2013 and was heavily downvoted at the time because as far as anyone was aware Spacey was an upstanding gentleman. It ended with something like, "you may not believe me, and you may downvote this comment, but mark my words he will eventually be revealed as the sexual predator that he is." Well the turnabout got a LOT of traction and people spent days/weeks trying to track the user down for some kind of cathartic vindication tour. They never surfaced, and the comment became legend.
Fast forward to today, and despite all the #metoo furor that was associated with these accusations, it sure looks like he was innocent all along. What a roller coaster this has been. Can't imagine what he went through all those years, knowing (apparently) that the charges were bogus. Hope he gets some semblance of a career back.
Sadly he is likely permanently tarnished. It's important to note in this case 3 of the people involved in the event alleged filed suit civilly before the criminal trial even began. That's important because people generally wait for the outcome of a criminal case before suing so that they don't have to reprove facts. This leads me to believe they all knew the allegations were false and were trying to collect before that was shown in court. As far as the Anthony Rapp case went I am unsure what happened there to it was almost immediately dismissed but they were 40 year old allegations. The was another case where a man claimed he was groped by spacey in a bar but they were dropped almost immediately by the DA.