Kevin Spacey

2022 - 10 - 16

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Kevin Spacey takes the stand at civil sex abuse trial (Yahoo News Canada)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Kevin Spacey took the witness stand on Monday to testify in his own defense in a trial over a civil lawsuit brought by actor Anthony ...

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Judge grants partial dismissal of Anthony Rapp claim in Kevin ... (USA TODAY)

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan tossed the intentional infliction of emotional distress claim after Rapp's lawyers finished presenting evidence.

Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate Rapp’s claim that he was a victim of assault and battery. Kaplan said the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old regular on "Star Trek: Discovery" on television. Kaplan threw out the claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence.

Kevin Spacey to testify in NYC sex abuse trial against accuser ... (New York Post)

Actor Kevin Spacey will testify in the sexual misconduct civil trial brought against him by accuser Anthony Rapp in Manhattan federal court.

Rapp, an actor who appeared in “Rent,” was 14 at the time and Spacey was 26. Rapp claims a drunken Spacey lifted him up and laid on top of him after a party at his Manhattan apartment in 1986. Prior to testimony resuming, Kaplan agreed to toss one of the claims brought by Rapp after one of Spacey’s attorneys argued the entire case should be dismissed on the merits of the law.

Kevin Spacey Trial Resumes With Judge Dismissing Emotional ... (Deadline)

The judge in Kevin Spacey $40 million civil trial today threw out Anthony Rapp's claim of emotional distress as the prosecution rested.

Keller’s cross-examination of Rapp lasted nearly five hours over two days as she [repeatedly targeted](https://deadline.com/2022/10/kevin-spacey-trial-anthony-rapp-testimony-american-beauty-working-girl-1235141094/) apparent inconsistencies and vague elements of the actor’s recollection of the events and why he took his story to BuzzFeed. Rapp’s allegations were among several that made Spacey an early focus of the #MeToo movement in 2017. Barrowman also testified that Rapp never told him of a second meeting at the apartment with Spacey until the two met for dinner in London several years later. [her bout with Covid](https://deadline.com/2022/10/kevin-spacey-covid-trial-anthony-rapp-sexual-misconduct-lawyer-1235143542/) that disrupted the trial last week. Asked by Spacey lawyer Chase Scolnick if Rapp spoke with “disdain” for Spacey, Barrowman said: “No, not that I recall. Spacey pushed me back” on to the bed, and lay there talking to him with arm draped over him. “I was also, actually, to be honest, quite flattered that an older man was showing any interest in me. With jurors not present, defense lawyer Jay Barrow moved to throw out the claims of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. “My father used to yell at me about the idea I might be gay,” the now openly out Spacey also said. he would use an f word that was very derogatory to the gay community. That would lower any damages that might be awarded in the case. Ever,” the actor added in what is now essentially a battery civil case.

Kevin Spacey wins partial dismissal of Anthony Rapp's claims (The Globe and Mail)

Judge throws out claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence.

Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate Rapp’s claim that he was a victim of assault and battery. Kaplan said the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old regular on “Star Trek: Discovery” on television. Kaplan threw out the claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence.

Kevin Spacey granted partial dismissal of claims in sexual ... (CBC.ca)

On Monday, a judge dismissed one of the legal claims Kevin Spacey faces from actor Anthony Rapp, who was 14 when he says Spacey tried to seduce him in a ...

Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate Rapp's claim that he was a victim of assault and battery. Kaplan threw out a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence. Identifying himself as "Kevin Spacey Fowler," the actor was asked about Rapp's claims that he was watching television on a bed in Spacey's apartment after a party when a then 26, fully clothed Spacey entered the room, lifted him up like a groom carries a bride, laid him across the bed and climbed partially on top of him.