Kevin Spacey labeled 'sexual bully' by prosecutors during London criminal trial
foxnews.comProsecutors painted actor Kevin Spacey as a "sexual bully" during opening statements of his criminal trial Friday. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The charges stem from allegations from four different men. Spacey is "a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space, a man who it would seem delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable — a sexual bully," prosecutor Christine Agnew said in her opening statement. "His preferred method of assault is, it appears, to grab aggressively other men in the crotch." Defense lawyer Patrick Gibbs said Spacey denied all allegations of nonconsensual activity and told jurors to ask themselves as they listened to the evidence what – if anything – had occurred when he was with the men.
He suggested the alleged victims had other motives and that Spacey had left himself open to opportunists when he came out as gay in 2020.
He said jurors would hear truths, half-truths, deliberate exaggerations and "many damned lies." All the allegations were made while Spacey worked as the artistic director at the Old Vic Theater in London.The four victims, who do not know each other, all have similar accounts of being groped by the "American Beauty" actor.
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