A jury concluded Tuesday that Kevin Spacey did not molest actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in the 1980s.
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS
“We’re very grateful to the jury for seeing through these false allegations,” said his attorney, Jennifer Keller. In his sometimes-tearful testimony, Spacey told the jury it never happened, and he would never have been attracted to someone who was 14.Rapp and his lawyers also left the courthouse without speaking to reporters. In his closing statements to the jury Thursday, Rapp’s lawyer, Richard Steigman, accused Spacey of lying on the witness stand.
A judge in Los Angeles this summer approved an arbitrator’s decision to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of “House of Cards” for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members. During her closing arguments to the jury, Keller suggested reasons Rapp imagined the encounter with Spacey or made it up.
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