NEW YORK – Oscar-winning US actor Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge for alleged sexual assault of a teenager in a bar in 2016, US media has reported.
The Cape and Islands, Massachusetts, district attorney said Spacey was due to be arraigned at Nantucket District Court on January 7 on a charge of indecent assault and battery, according to the Boston Globe.
Clerk Magistrate Ryan Kearney issued a criminal complaint for the charge “against Kevin S. Fowler, also known as Kevin Spacey,” at a hearing on December 20, the newspaper reported, citing DA Michael O’Keefe.
He will appear in court on 7 January over the incident, which allegedly occurred in Nantucket in July 2016.
On Monday, Spacey posted a video in which he appears to deny any wrongdoing while in character as Frank Underwood from House of Cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZveA-NAIDI
“I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn’t do,” he says in the clip.
“You wouldn’t believe the worst without evidence, would you?” he asks. “You wouldn’t rush to judgements without facts.”
The alleged victim is the son of former television news presenter Heather Unruh, who spoke publicly about the incident last year.
She accused Spacey of buying her then 18-year-old son alcohol – the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21 – and then groping him.
UK police are also investigating several allegations that centre around Spacey’s time serving as artistic director at London’s Old Vic theatre.
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The controversy has led to Spacey being axed from a number of roles, including from House of Cards and the 2017 film All the Money in the World, which was re-shot without him.
A film in which he appears, Billionaire Boys Club, also took a record-breaking low of $126 (£98) on its first night in US cinemas in August.
