The verdict brings to a conclusion a trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement.
on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1980s.
During the trial, Rapp had testified that Spacey invited him to his apartment for a party, then approached him in a bedroom after the other guests left. He said the actor, then 26, picked him up and briefly laid on top of him on a bed. “He lacks credibility,” Steigman said. “Sometimes the simple truth is the best. The simple truth is that this happened,” he said.
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