Prosecutor Christine Agnew advised the jury at London’s Southwark Crown Courtroom that Spacey could have gotten a “sexual thrill” from preying on different males.
Spacey “doesn’t respect private boundaries or house” and “delights in making others really feel powerless and uncomfortable, a sexual bully,” Agnew stated, in accordance with the Press Affiliation, a British information company.
Spacey denies the 12 expenses in opposition to him and has beforehand stated he hopes to make a profession comeback as soon as he has established his innocence and the London trial is over.
The Oscar-winning actor’s trial formally received underway earlier this week with jury choice. The jury will hear from the 4 males through the trial, which is anticipated to final three to 4 weeks.
“Not one of the males wished to be touched by Kevin Spacey Fowler in a sexual approach, however he doesn’t appear to have cared very a lot for his or her emotions,” Agnew stated, utilizing the actor’s full identify. “He did what he wished to do for his personal private sexual gratification.”
The prosecutor warned the jury that they could really feel “star struck or overwhelmed that you’re a part of the jury to strive such a well-known particular person however … you should maintain your self grounded and true to the oath that you’ve taken.”
Spacey arrived on the Southwark Crown Courtroom greater than two hours earlier than his case began. He traveled to the courtroom in a London black cab and wore a grey go well with and gold tie.
The costs in opposition to him embody sexual assault, indecent assault and inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The alleged incidents are stated to have taken place in London and Gloucestershire between 2001 and 2013. Throughout a lot of that point, Spacey was the inventive director of London’s Outdated Vic theater, a prestigious playhouse.
Spacey was considered one of America’s most celebrated actors earlier than allegations of sexual assault emerged on the top of the #MeToo motion. He received Oscars for the movies “The Traditional Suspects” and “American Magnificence.” His flip as Frank Underwood within the Netflix political drama “Home of Playing cards” made him a family identify. Shortly after he was first accused of sexual misconduct in 2017, he was dropped by that present and lower from Ridley Scott’s “All of the Cash within the World,” a movie that was accomplished on the time however then reshot with actor Christopher Plummer.
In a uncommon interview, Spacey advised Germany’s Zeit journal that the media had turned him right into a “monster” and that “lots of people are very afraid that in the event that they help me, they are going to be canceled.”
There are “individuals proper now who’re prepared to rent me the second I’m cleared of those expenses in London,” he added. “The second that occurs, they’re prepared to maneuver ahead.”