Kevin Spacey Sexual Assault Trial for Civil Claim in U.K. Set

Kevin Spacey is because of stand trial within the U.Okay. once more, probably in 2025, over a lawsuit by a person, who alleges that the actor sexually assaulted him, Reuters reported.

The alleged sexual assault occurred in August 2008, with the trial on Tuesday anticipated to begin in early 2025, Reuters reported. The actor has denied the allegations.

The claimant has been granted anonymity by the courtroom, however Reuters mentioned he’s one among 4 complainants who individually sued Spacey in legal instances, the trial of which ended with the actor’s acquittal final summer season.

Earlier this 12 months, a decide granted the unnamed claimant within the civil case “judgment in default,” which means a ruling in his favor with no trial, after Spacey’s authorized workforce missed a deadline to formally submit a protection. A decide on Tuesday overturned that call; Spacey didn’t attend the courtroom date. “The defendant’s solicitors have made an error,” the decide mentioned, based on Reuters. “In my opinion, that error shouldn’t be visited upon the defendant.”

The civil declare, which was initially filed in July 2022, was placed on maintain till the result of the legal trial towards the star. In the summertime of 2023, Spacey was acquitted of a number of sexual assault costs in a high-profile legal trial in London. A jury discovered him not responsible of 9 costs, together with sexual assault and indecent assault, following allegations by 4 males. The fees had been dated between 2001 and 2013, most referring to the interval when the two-time Oscar winner was the creative director of London’s Previous Vic Theatre, a place he held from 2004 to 2015.

The information of one other U.Okay. trial follows the airing this weekend of a brand new Channel 4 documentary that supplied a “forensic look” on the Oscar winner’s rise to stardom and his alleged sexual misconduct. Spacey Unmasked featured 10 males telling their tales of alleged abuse by the hands of Spacey. None of them had been concerned within the London legal trial, and all however one have by no means spoken out earlier than.

“I cannot sit again and be attacked by a dying community’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me of their determined try for rankings,” Spacey mentioned in a long thread on X, previously Twitter, earlier than the weekend. He additionally mentioned concerning the doc that will air on Max and Investigation Discovery within the U.S.: “There’s a correct channel to deal with allegations towards me and it’s not Channel 4. Every time I’ve been given the time and a correct discussion board to defend myself, the allegations have failed underneath scrutiny and I’ve been exonerated.”

“I’ve bought nothing left to cover,” Spacey additionally instructed former U.Okay. broadcaster Dan Wootton throughout a two-hour, 20-minute interview entitled Kevin Spacey: Proper of Reply, which streamed on X (previously Twitter).