NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury on Thursday determined Kevin Spacey should not be held liable for Anthony Rapp’s decades-old sexual misconduct allegations.
The verdict came after less than two hours of deliberations following a two-week trial that included lengthy testimony from Rapp, 50, and Spacey, 63.
Rapp’s $40 million lawsuit accused Spacey of making an unwanted sexual pass in 1986, when he was starting out on Broadway at age 14. He claimed Spacey, then 26, climbed on top of him and pressed his groin into his hip after a party at Spacey’s Upper East Side apartment.
