{"id":1704639,"date":"2022-10-20T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704639"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:18:49","slug":"breaking-kevin-spacey-did-not-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-civil-jury-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kevin-spacey-did-not-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-civil-jury-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Kevin Spacey Did Not Molest Actor Anthony Rapp, Civil Jury Concludes"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbreaking-kevin-spacey-did-not-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-civil-jury-concludes%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=1704639&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--><p>A civil jury concluded Thursday that actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-spacey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Spacey<\/a> did not molest actor Anthony Rapp decades ago when Rapp was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-anthony-rapp-manhattan-kevin-spacey-910b90edbb92f00c7461809b13b8e782?taid=6351ade776bc1e0001f82a10&#038;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that when the verdict was read, Spacey \u201cdropped his head\u201d and then began to hug his lawyers before walking out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/courtroom-confession-kevin-spacey-claims-publicist-made-him-apologize-to-alleged-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maintained<\/a> his innocence throughout the trial and claimed in court that his publicist was the one who made him apologize to Rapp back in 2017 when Rapp made the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was being encouraged to apologize and I\u2019ve learned a lesson, which is never apologize for something that you didn\u2019t do. I regret my entire statement,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/kevin-spacey-trial-cries-anthony-rapp-apology-1235406412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacey said in court<\/a> in New York City, as his emotions got the better of him and he began to cry. \u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility. I put it out there. It was really wrong. It was really bad and I\u2019m deeply sorry. I have to own that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained in court that at the time, he had just felt blind-sided and he \u201cliterally didn\u2019t know how to respond.\u201d That was when his publicist counseled him not to come out forcefully against Rapp, saying that he ran the risk of people then accusing him of blaming the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Rapp accused the Academy Award-winning actor of making inappropriate sexual advances toward him in 1986 \u2014 when Rapp was just 14 years old \u2014 in a bombshell Buzzfeed article. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/horrifying-spacey-quasi-admits-molesting-14-year-ben-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacey<\/a> responded to the accusation by publicly coming out as gay, denying any memory of the incident described by Rapp.<\/p>\n<p><em>Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civil jury concluded Thursday that actor Kevin Spacey did not molest actor Anthony Rapp decades ago when Rapp was a teenager. The Associated Press reported that when the verdict was read, Spacey \u201cdropped his head\u201d and then began to hug his lawyers before walking out of the building. Spacey maintained his innocence throughout the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704639","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}