Content warning: This article discusses sexual violence.
Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey is in court for the second time in less than a year over sexual misconduct allegations, this time involving four men in London. In court on Monday, one of the men testified that Spacey performed a sex act on him after he fell asleep in Spacey’s apartment.
Spacey faces 12 counts, including seven sexual-assault counts, and three indecent-assault ones. He also faces one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. The allegations are from four men and allegedly happened between 2001 and 2013.
Spacey lived in London and worked as the artistic director for the famous Old Vic Theatre from 2003 to 2015. The man who testified in court is the fourth one to do so. He said he wrote Spacey in 2008 asking for the famous actor to mentor him, and he got a call from Spacey unexpectedly inviting him for a late-night drink.
He said he went to the actors apartment because “it’s Kevin Spacey,” per Deadline.
Spacey, he said, made him feel “weirdly special.” They smoked some weed and ate pizza, and then the man said Spacey “kind of opened up his arms and said, ‘come here.’” Next, Spacey nuzzled his head “into my crotch. I thought ‘this is incredibly weird.’ I was very nervous at this point. I was just flicking through TV channels.”
He didn’t do anything, because “you just just don’t want to annoy someone who’s that powerful in the business you’re trying to break in to. The social sway he had was massive.” The accuser broke down in tears on the stand and said Spacey was “atrocious, despicable, disgusting.”
In the apartment, he said he fell asleep, which is “something I would normally do – it is unusual in my behaviour just to conk out.”
He woke up “four to five hours later” with his “button and zip” and down and the realization that Spacey sexually assaulted him. The man said “no” and then Spacey “asked me to leave straight away. He said I shouldn’t talk to anyone about what happened.”
The man said there were rumors Spacey liked young, straight men but didn’t know the famous actor “was a predator.” After the incident, the man said he cried at a bus stop.
Spacey’s lawyer, Patrick Gibbs KC, tried to poke holes in the man’s testimony by claiming that the man sent Spacey texts after the incident. The man replied that he had wanted to see Spacey to “get him to say something about the truth” and “record it.”
Gibbs then offered that if the man had wanted Spacey to stop, he would have said no. “You can’t when you are asleep,” the man answered.
Gibbs then claimed the man had questioned his own sexuality after the incident. “I find this the most reprehensible line of questioning,” the man responded.
The other victims in the trial have already testified. One said Spacey touched him inappropriately for what felt like an “eternity.” Another said Spacey grabbed him “like a cobra.” The third man said he was driving Spacey around and the actor grabbed him “so hard I almost came off the road.”
Spacey has previously said he will get job offers “the moment I am cleared of these charges.” The trial is expected to continue two weeks.