(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2013 actor Kevin Spacey attends the BAFTA LA TV Tea 2013 presented by BBC America and Audi held at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills, California. - Disgraced US movie star Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to the production company that made the series "House of Cards" in which he starred until he was fired over allegations of sexual harassment, according to legal documents made public November 22, 2021. (Photo by Jason MERRITT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Troubled American actor Kevin Spacey will now appear before a Manhattan federal court in New York for allegedly s3xually assaulting actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14-years-old.
Kevin Spacey will face his accuser in court where jury selection is scheduled to begin on Thursday in Rapp’s $40 million civil lawsuit over the incident, which allegedly occurred when he was 14.
Rapp has accused actor of trying to seduce him when he 14 at Spacey’s Manhattan apartment in 1986.
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Reports say that the trial will focus on an alleged encounter in New York in 1986, when Rapp was a child actor and Spacey, then 26, was making his name on Broadway.
Rapp, then 14, said Spacey invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment then tried to seduce him after the other guests left.
Spacey, 63, has denied Rapp’s accusations and other sexual misconduct charges.
“We look forward to a trial by jury with actual evidence rather than trial by social media,” his lawyer Jennifer Keller said on Wednesday.
