LONDON — The British authorities are bringing felony expenses towards Kevin Spacey on 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males, the nation’s Crown Prosecution Service introduced in a information launch on Thursday.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s particular crime division, mentioned within the launch that Mr. Spacey, 62, had “additionally been charged with inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.”
The authorization of expenses adopted a overview of the proof collected by London’s police drive. Mr. Spacey can’t be formally charged except he enters England or Wales, a spokesman for the service mentioned in a phone interview. The spokesman declined to touch upon whether or not the service would pursue extradition proceedings if that didn’t happen.
The information launch mentioned the fees involved three complainants. The incidents dated from March 2005, August 2008 and April 2013, it added. All of the incidents occurred in London, besides one from 2013, which occurred in Gloucestershire, England.
Representatives for Mr. Spacey didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
The primary individual to publicly accuse Mr. Spacey of sexual misconduct was the actor Anthony Rapp, who mentioned in 2017 that Mr. Spacey had made undesirable sexual advances towards him within the Nineteen Eighties, when he was 14 years outdated.
Quickly after {that a} former tv anchor got here ahead to accuse Mr. Spacey of sexually assaulting her son, after which 20 individuals who labored with Mr. Spacey on the Previous Vic theater in London, the place he was inventive director for 11 years, accused him of inappropriate conduct.
In 2018, Mr. Spacey was charged with the sexual assault of the tv anchor’s 18-year-old son in Nantucket, Mass. Prosecutors dropped the case when the accuser invoked the Fifth Modification and refused to proceed testifying.
A therapeutic massage therapist sued Mr. Spacey in California in 2019, accusing him of groping and attempting to kiss him earlier than providing him oral intercourse throughout a therapeutic massage. The accuser died unexpectedly forward of the trial and the case was dismissed when his property dropped the lawsuit.
TV and movie producers began dropping Mr. Spacey from initiatives after Mr. Rapp’s accusations, together with from the Netflix political drama “Home of Playing cards,” which completed its run with out the actor. However extra not too long ago, he has discovered roles in smaller movies, together with an Italian function and an American thriller.
In January, Croatian newspapers reported that Mr. Spacey was capturing a film within the nation through which he performed Franjo Tudjman, the onetime Communist normal who led Croatia to independence.
This month, Deadline reported that he had signed up for a historic drama referred to as “1242 — Gateway to the West” scheduled to begin capturing in Hungary and Mongolia in October. The film would inform the story of one in every of Genghis Khan’s grandsons. It was being bought on the Cannes Movie Competition, Deadline added. His new American thriller was additionally being bought at Cannes, in line with Rolling Stone.
Alex Marshall reported from London, and Julia Jacobs from New York.
