(CNN) — Actor Kevin Spacey testified as the first witness for the defense in the trial he faces for sexual misconduct, after the lawsuit filed by fellow actor Anthony Rapp.
In response to the first question from his attorney, Jay Barron, Spacey said that Rapp’s allegations are not true.
Spacey testified in court that he has always kept his life private, including his childhood. His father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi, a fact he says he had never publicly revealed before.
Hours earlier, another Spacey attorney, Chase Scolnick, reported at a public hearing that his client would testify in court. Scolnick made the announcement when the jury was not in court.
Earlier Monday, attorneys for actor Anthony Rapp, who accuses Spacey of touching him without his consent when he was a child in the 1980s, said they had finished presenting their case.
The accusation against Kevin Spacey
Rapp, best known for his role on “Star Trek: Discovery,” alleges that in 1986, when he was 14, Spacey, then 26, invited him to his Manhattan home, where he grabbed him, laid him on his bed, he grabbed his buttocks and pressed his groin against Rapp’s body without his consent. Rapp sued Spacey for assault.
In a major victory for Spacey, Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday granted the defense’s request to dismiss a suit for intentionally inflicting emotional distress. Rapp’s attorney tried to convince Kaplan to keep it, but Kaplan said he wouldn’t.
Kaplan already dismissed an assault lawsuit in this case in June.
Rapp’s attorney did not comment on Monday’s ruling.
Spacey’s attorneys have attempted to disprove Rapp’s claims by pointing to discrepancies, such as the dates Rapp claims to have met Spacey at industry events.
Before ending his presentation on the stand, Rapp’s attorney, Peter Saghir, asked the actor if he had been lying about his allegations against Spacey.
“I haven’t. It was something that happened to me and it wasn’t right,” Rapp responded on the stand last week.
(CNN) — Actor Kevin Spacey testified as the first witness for the defense in the trial he faces for sexual misconduct, after the lawsuit filed by fellow actor Anthony Rapp.
In response to the first question from his attorney, Jay Barron, Spacey said that Rapp’s allegations are not true.
Spacey testified in court that he has always kept his life private, including his childhood. His father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi, a fact he says he had never publicly revealed before.
Hours earlier, another Spacey attorney, Chase Scolnick, reported at a public hearing that his client would testify in court. Scolnick made the announcement when the jury was not in court.
Earlier Monday, attorneys for actor Anthony Rapp, who accuses Spacey of touching him without his consent when he was a child in the 1980s, said they had finished presenting their case.
The accusation against Kevin Spacey
Rapp, best known for his role on “Star Trek: Discovery,” alleges that in 1986, when he was 14, Spacey, then 26, invited him to his Manhattan home, where he grabbed him, laid him on his bed, he grabbed his buttocks and pressed his groin against Rapp’s body without his consent. Rapp sued Spacey for assault.
In a major victory for Spacey, Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday granted the defense’s request to dismiss a suit for intentionally inflicting emotional distress. Rapp’s attorney tried to convince Kaplan to keep it, but Kaplan said he wouldn’t.
Kaplan already dismissed an assault lawsuit in this case in June.
Rapp’s attorney did not comment on Monday’s ruling.
Spacey’s attorneys have attempted to disprove Rapp’s claims by pointing to discrepancies, such as the dates Rapp claims to have met Spacey at industry events.
Before ending his presentation on the stand, Rapp’s attorney, Peter Saghir, asked the actor if he had been lying about his allegations against Spacey.
“I haven’t. It was something that happened to me and it wasn’t right,” Rapp responded on the stand last week.
