{"id":1427527,"date":"2022-04-10T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427527"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:44:57","slug":"kevin-spacey-asks-judge-to-axe-actors-sex-abuse-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-spacey-asks-judge-to-axe-actors-sex-abuse-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey Asks Judge to Axe Actor&#039;s Sex Abuse Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-spacey-asks-judge-to-axe-actors-sex-abuse-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427527&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp\u2019s sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the then-teenage Rapp at a 1980s party are false.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that the alleged events Rapp described never occurred. Rapp has appeared in \u201cRent\u201d on Broadway and in \u201cStar Trek: Discovery\u201d on television.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He alleged in his lawsuit that he went to a party in 1986 at Spacey\u2019s Manhattan home, where a 26-year-old Spacey, without Rapp\u2019s consent, \u201cengaged in a sexual advance\u201d by grabbing Rapp\u2019s buttocks and lifting him onto a bed and laying on his body. Rapp claimed he \u201cwas forced to extricate himself\u201d before leaving the party.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey\u2019s lawyers argued the alleged encounter cannot qualify as sexual abuse under New York\u2019s laws because the only alleged contact with an \u201cintimate\u201d part of the body by Spacey was when his hand grazed the 14-year-old Rapp\u2019s buttocks when the older actor picked him up. The lawyers said Rapp \u201cwriggled out\u201d with no resistance during an encounter of less than 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>There was no other evidence that would suggest any fleeting contact between Spacey\u2019s hand and Rapp\u2019s buttocks was for the purpose of sexual gratification or to degrade or abuse Rapp, the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The lack of evidence means Rapp\u2019s claims for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress must fail, the lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>They said Spacey \u201cflatly denies\u201d that any of what Rapp described took place.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Rapp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>When Rapp first spoke publicly of his claim in 2017, others went public too and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-harvey-weinstein-ca-state-wire-celebrities-anthony-rapp-1435c5a20c794e24b622bb84847483be\">Spacey\u2019s then-celebrated career abruptly halted<\/a>. At the time, Spacey <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-ca-state-wire-celebrities-5b503ab7877d4e2d9d8da8891a7179c7\">issued a statement <\/a> saying he didn\u2019t remember the encounter but apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in \u201cAmerican Beauty,\u201d a 1999 film in which he played a frustrated suburban father who lusts after his daughter\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In recent filings, Rapp\u2019s lawyers have asked to transfer the case to state court, saying Spacey cannot prove he has been living in Maryland and qualifies for the diversity of citizenship necessary to remain in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they argue, he has been mostly living in London since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>They said he only lived in Maryland when he was acting in his Emmy-winning role in \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d from 2014 through 2017. He was fired from the show days after Rapp went public and former show workers claimed that Spacey made the production a \u201ctoxic\u201d workplace and one ex-employee alleged the actor sexually assaulted him.<\/p>\n<p>In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arts-and-entertainment-sexual-misconduct-kevin-spacey-8ce48c65e05c0cb04f57c912c8fc9436\">an arbitrator said Spacey <\/a> and his production companies must pay the studio behind the Netflix political thriller $31 million because of losses they incurred after his firing.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey appealed the decision to a panel of three more private arbitrators, who found for the plaintiffs, making the decision final, and public.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case brought against him, an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged groping of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket resort, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-us-news-lawsuits-los-angeles-massachusetts-b83440b06f6f4085827efbf716d5598e\">was dismissed by Massachusetts prosecutors<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp\u2019s sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}