LONDON – Actor Kevin Spacey was charged in London on Monday with four sexual assault charges, the city’s police said in a press release.
Spacey, 62, who was also charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without their consent, is scheduled to appear in court in London on Thursday where he will confirm his identity and understand the allegations. A date for a full trial has not yet been announced.
The offenses, involving three men, are said to have taken place between March 2005 and April 2013, the police said in a press release. Mr. Spacey’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
British authorities last month cleared the charges against Mr Spacey, which only took effect when Mr Spacey traveled to England to be formally charged.
mr. Spacey told ABC News’s “Good Morning America” that he denied the charges and would travel to Britain to defend himself. “While I am disappointed with their decision to move forward, I will voluntarily appear in the UK as soon as possible and defend myself against these charges, which I am sure will prove my innocence,” he said in a statement. the show. †
The allegations detailed in the press release relate to incidents alleged to have taken place in London and Gloucestershire, England. They date back to when Mr. Spacey was the Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theater in London, the playhouse he ran from 2003 to 2015.
The first person Mr. Spacey, a two-time Academy Award winner, publicly accused of sexual misconduct was actor Anthony Rapp, who said in 2017 that Mr. Spacey made unwanted sexual advances at a party in New York in 1986 when he was 14 years old.
Shortly after the allegations of Mr. Rapp in an article published by BuzzFeed, several men accused Mr. Spacey in the Old Vic also charged him with inappropriate behavior. An independent investigation, commissioned by the theater, said Mr Spacey’s “stardom and status” could have deterred people from making accusations when they arose. The investigators’ report added that they were unable to independently verify the allegations and that Mr Spacey was not participating.