NEW YORK — Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey goes on trial Thursday in Manhattan to defend himself against the first in a string of sexual assault allegations he faces worldwide.
Spacey, 63, is accused of forcing himself on a teenage boy almost half his age in the late 1980s. Actor Anthony Rapp claims he was 14 when Spacey allegedly thrust himself on top of him inside a bedroom at Spacey’s tony Upper West Side apartment.
Rapp, who filed a Manhattan Federal Court civil lawsuit, is demanding $40 million in damages. He claims the abuse happened at a party Spacey hosted in 1986, where Rapp was the youngest guest. His September 2020 lawsuit details how an intoxicated Spacey, then 26, groped his buttocks, lifted him onto a bed, and got on top of him.
