Actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told
- The Oscar-winning star pleaded not guilty to a dozen allegations of sex offences against 4 men, said to have taken place between 2001 and 2013
- ‘He is a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space...[and] delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable’, prosecutor said
Kevin Spacey is a “sexual bully” who assaults men and does not respect personal boundaries or space, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the start of the US Oscar-winning actor’s trial on a sex offence charges.
Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen allegations of historic sex offences committed against four men which are said to have taken place between 2001 and 2013.
Opening the prosecution case at London’s Southwark Crown Court, lawyer Christine Agnew told the jury Spacey was an extremely famous actor who had won a number of awards.
“He is also, the prosecution allege, a man who sexually assaults other men,” she said.
“A man who does not respect personal boundaries or space, a man who it would seem delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable – a sexual bully. His preferred method of assault is it appears to grab aggressively other men in the crotch.”
Spacey, who is being tried under his full name Kevin Spacey Fowler, watched from the dock, wearing a grey suit, a gold-coloured tie and glasses.
