ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY has told a jury he was “somewhat intimate” with one of his alleged sexual assault victims but denied assaulting him in a “violent, aggressive, painful way”.
Spacey said an aspiring actor’s claims that he drugged him and performed a sex act on him while he was asleep in his flat were false, saying the pair had shared an “intimate moment”. Addressing sexual grab claims made by a fourth complainant he met in a pub near Oxford, he said he had “primarily” no issue with what the man had told the court, adding: “I made a pass and I’m only happy that he testified that the moment he told me he was not interested I stopped.”
He also told jurors he felt pressurised to come out as gay after allegations of sexual misconduct were first levelled at him. Spacey said: “I can’t remember specific conversations we had but I remember the tone, I remember the atmosphere, I remember the laughter.The actor accepted touching the man but said: “It did not happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way.Asked by his barrister if there was any reluctance from the alleged victim to his advances, Spacey said: “No. The only thing he made clear is he did not want to go any further than we were going and I respected that.
Detailing his account of what happened with the aspiring actor in the late 2000s, the Hollywood star told the jury that he “hurriedly left” after the pair shared an “intimate moment”. Asked what he remembered of the alleged encounter, Spacey said: “I remember the end of the evening and that was what struck me in my mind because we had a consensual and, I believe, a very nice and lovely evening.
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