Shocking Allegations Surface Against “House Of Cards” Star

Actor Kevin Spacey is facing four counts of sexually assaulting three men in the U.K. The Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday that the charges against the actor “follow a review of evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police.” Spacey, 62, was also charged with “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent,” the agency said.

The incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims are now in their 30s and 40s. The charges follow a review of evidence gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police, according to Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s Special Crime Division,

British police questioned Spacey in 2019 about claims made by several men that he had assaulted them.

The former “House of Cards” star ran London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015. Spacey won a best-supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 film “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 movie “American Beauty.”

In 2017 actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a party in the 1980s when Rapp was a teenager.

Spacey denies the allegations and is currently trying to have a sex abuse lawsuit from Rapp in New York thrown out. He testified Thursday in a courtroom in New York City in the civil lawsuit filed by Rapp.

Thursday’s court session in New York City was to decide whether the case was better handled in a federal or state U.S. court. Spacey was called to testify about where he lived, not about the truthfulness of the allegations against him.

Spacey testified that his main residence is in Baltimore, where he moved for the filming of “House of Cards.” But he also testified about his time living in London as the artistic director of the Old Vic.

“It was extremely important to me that I endear myself to the British public, that I’m not running away,” he said, noting that his start there was troubled by a “disastrous production” in 2005 of Arthur Miller’s last play.

But, Spacey said, “I’m an American citizen. Once the job was done, I came back to America.”

The actor said he made a trip to London in February 2020 for a possible film, but when the pandemic hit, his U.S. doctor recommended that he stay there, where he resided until the following September when his visa expired, and he flew to Los Angeles for an arbitration proceeding.

Spacey said he has not been back to the U.K. since then.

A separate criminal case brought against Spacey, an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged groping of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket resort, was dismissed by Massachusetts prosecutors in 2019.