The British prosecutor’s office thus authorizes criminal proceedings against the former star of the series “House of Cards”, accused of sexual assault since 2017.
Le Monde with AFP
American actor Kevin Spacey was charged with four sexual assaults against three men in the United Kingdom, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Thursday, May 26. By this procedure, equivalent to the indictment in France, the British prosecutor’s office thus authorizes criminal proceedings against the former star of the House of Cards.
“He was also accused of having pushed a person of participating in a sexual activity with penetration without his consent,” said Rosemary Ainslie, head of the special CPS crimes division in a statement. She also clarified that these accusations made “following an examination of the evidence collected by the metropolitan police in her investigation”.
The alleged facts cover a period from March 2005 to April 2013. Two charges target sex assault that would have been committed in March 2005 in London on the same complainant. Another sexual assault would have taken place in August 2008 on a second complainant.
Finally, Kevin Spacey is charged with a fourth sexual assault on a third complainant in April 2013 in the Gloucestershire (southwest of England).
complaints linked to the time he Direct the Old Vic 2> theater
London police had opened an investigation after having received complaints of sexual assault against the actor, some of which were committed in the Lampeth district of London, where the Old Vic theater is located, including Kevin Spacey was artistic director between 2004 and 2015.
Following the first accusations, in 2017, the one who was rewarded twice at the Oscars for his roles in Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999) – where he excelled in the handling of a subtle ambiguity – had been landed by Netflix from House of Cards, from which he played the first role. The actor was also erased from the latest film by Ridley Scott, all the money in the world; The scenes in which he played were filmed again in extremis by Christopher Plummer. In the sixth and last season of House of Cards, released in November 2018, his character, Frank Underwood, had disappeared.