A New York City federal court judge has ruled that a sexual assault civil lawsuit filed against Kevin Spacey can proceed despite the longtime actor’s efforts to have the case dismissed, recent court papers show.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled Monday that actor Anthony Rapp’s allegations against Spacey raised "a genuine issue of material fact" as to whether Spacey allegedly acted with the purpose of gratifying "sexual desire," Kaplan wrote in his Monday opinion.
Kevin Spacey is accused of sexually assaulting actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14 in 1986. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage/Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket) Rapp accused Spacey, whose full name is Kevin Spacey Fowler, of sexually assaulting him in Manhattan in 1986, when Rapp was 14 years old.
Rapp has said Spacey "lifted him up" and that his hand "grazed" Rapp’s "clothed buttock for seconds as he did so," court papers state.
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