Civil trial against Kevin Spacey for sexual assault in Great Britain dropped

Kevin Spacey is due back in court in Britain in 2025 over a lawsuit from a man who claims the actor sexually assaulted him. Reuters reported.

The alleged sexual assault occurred in August 2008, and Tuesday’s trial is scheduled to begin in early 2025. Reuters reported. The actor has denied the allegations.

The plaintiff was granted anonymity by the court, but Reuters said he was one of four plaintiffs who sued Spacey individually in criminal cases whose trial ended with the actor’s acquittal last summer.

Earlier this year, a judge awarded the unnamed plaintiff a “default judgment” in the civil case, i.e. A judge reversed that decision on Tuesday; Spacey did not attend the court hearing. “The defendant’s lawyers made an error,” the judge said Reuters. “In my view, this error should not be blamed on the defendant.”

The civil lawsuit, originally filed in July 2022, has been put on hold pending the outcome of the criminal case against the star. In the summer of 2023, Spacey was acquitted of several allegations of sexual assault in a high-profile criminal trial in London. A jury found him not guilty on nine counts, including sexual assault and indecent assault, following allegations from four men. The charges dated between 2001 and 2013 and largely related to the period when the two-time Oscar winner was artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater, a position he held from 2004 to 2015.

News of another trial in the UK follows Channel 4’s broadcast of a new documentary this weekend, which offered a “forensic look” at the Oscar winner’s rise to stardom and his alleged sexual misconduct. Spacey exposed Ten men shared their stories of alleged abuse at the hands of Spacey. None of them were involved in the London criminal trial and all but one have never spoken out before.

“I will not sit back and be offended by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in its desperate attempt to gain ratings,” Spacey said in a long thread about X, formerly Twitter, before the weekend. He also said of the documentary, which will air in the US on Max and Investigation Discovery: “There’s a proper channel to deal with allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4. Every time I get that “I was given time and an appropriate forum to defend myself. The allegations could not be examined and I was exonerated.”

“I have nothing left to hide,” Spacey also told former British broadcaster Dan Wootton in a two-hour and 20-minute interview titled “ Kevin Spacey: Right of reply, which was streamed on X (formerly Twitter).