NEW YORK — A jury concluded Tuesday that Kevin Spacey didn’t molest fellow actor Anthony Rapp within the Nineteen Eighties, bringing to a conclusion a trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo motion.
The decision within the Manhattan federal court docket civil trial got here after jurors thought-about whether or not to imagine Rapp’s claims that he was psychologically broken after Spacey made a sexual advance on him in 1986. Each had been comparatively unknown actors in Broadway performs.
Spacey testified that the encounter by no means occurred, and stated he was positive of it.
The 2017 claims by Rapp and others introduced an abrupt halt to two-time Academy Award winner Spacey’s profession.
