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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Daniel Ark</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">The feral jury Kev Spacey's sexual abe trial found that the Osr-wng actor is not liable for battery agast “Star Trek: Disvery star” Anthony Rapp.</p><p class="">The jury of five men and six women liberated for jt unr 90 mut Thursday afternoon. Rapp appeared stoic as the verdict was read, and his lawyers seemed jected as they left the urthoe downtown Manhattan.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Spacey dropped his head after the verdict was announced and then stood up to hug his lawyers.</p><p class="">“I’m very grateful to the jury for seeg through the false allegatns,” Spacey's attorney Jennifer Keller said outsi the urthoe. Spacey, flanked by bodyguards, did not say anythg outsi before hoppg to a black SUV and drivg off.</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">In a statement posted on Twter</a>, Rapp said he was "eply grateful for the opportuny to have my se heard before a jury, and I thank the members of the jury for their service."</p><p class="">"Brgg this lawsu was always about shg a light, as part of the larger movement to stand up agast all forms of sexual vlence," Rapp said, vowg to ntue to advote for "a world that is ee om sexual vlence of any kd."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Richard Steigman, the attorney for Rapp who livered closg arguments Thursday, said a statement: "Anthony told his tth urt. While we rpect the jury’s verdict, nothg chang that."</p><p class="">In the early days of the #MeToo movement, Rapp was one of the most proment people to level sexual misnduct allegatns agast Spacey, railg his ld reer on screen and stage. </p><p class=""><a href=">Rapp alleged</a> that Spacey climbed on top of him at a party New York Cy 1986, when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Rapp, bt known for his role the mil “Rent,” ttified that the alleged enunter was <a href=">“the most trmatic sgle event”</a> of his life.</p><p class="">Spacey flatly nied Rapp’s allegatns, sayg unr oath that “they are not te.” His lawyers argued that Rapp “created a story” large part <a href=">bee he was jealo</a> of their client’s succs the entertament dtry.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Kev Spacey si Uned Sat District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 20, 2022 New York." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Kev Spacey si U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 20, 2022.</span><span class="ptn__source">Christe Cornell</span></figptn></figure><p class="">In closg arguments earlier on Thursday, lawyers for the actors prented dramatilly divergent versns of events. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Steigman suggted that Spacey put on a performance for the jury on the wns stand and sisted that, s later, his client remas trmatized bee of the alleged enunter. </p><p class="">Keller dismissed Rapp’s claims as falsehoods.</p><h2 class="">Emotnal ttimoni </h2><p class="">The two men livered tearful ttimoni on the wns stand.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Rapp <a href=">fought back tears</a> and spoke wh a paed exprsn as he relled the tails of the alleged enunter he scribed as “credibly ighteng and very alarmg.” He ttified that he <a href=">felt spired to go public</a> wh his claims the fall of 2017.</p><p class="">“I didn’t ask for him to do that,” he told jurors, referrg to Spacey’s alleged sexual advance. “I didn’t want him to do that.”</p><p class="">Spacey, for his part, repeatedly <a href=">broke down cryg</a> durg his ttimony. In a quaverg voice, he told jurors about his “huiatg and terrifyg” upbrgg as the son of a man he scribed as a “whe supremacist and neo-Nazi.”</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Kev Spacey si Uned Sat District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 20, 2022 New York." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Kev Spacey si U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Oct. 20, 2022.</span><span class="ptn__source">Christe Cornell</span></figptn></figure><p class="">“I have never talked about the thgs publicly, ever,” he said.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Rapp filed a lawsu agast Spacey 2020 based on three claims: asslt, battery and tentnal flictn of emotnal distrs.</p><p class="">Judge Lewis A. Kaplan dismissed the asslt claim before the trial started, sayg was not vered by the New York’s Child Victims Act of 2019, which temporarily allowed people to make claims that would have normally been blocked by the statute of limatns.</p><p class="">Kaplan tossed out Rapp’s claim of emotnal distrs on the sixth day of the trial, sayg part that “repeats and re-alleg” the allegatn of battery. </p><p class="">Rapp, who claimed he shared his experience wh iends over the years, first publicly tailed his allegatns <a href=">an article published by BuzzFeed News</a> on Oct. 29, 2017.</p><h2 class="">Spacey's rponse to allegatns</h2><p class=""><a href=">In a statement on Twter</a> the next day, Spacey said he did not rell the alleged cint but apologized to Rapp for “what would have been eply appropriate dnken behavr.” He then me out, wrg part: “I choose now to live as a gay man.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">In his ttimony, Spacey said he regretted that statement, explag that he now believ he should not have apologized for somethg he sists he did not do.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">“I’ve learned a lson: Never apologize for somethg you didn’t do,” Spacey told the jurors. “I regret my entire statement.”</p><p class="">He said his publicy team enuraged him to take the allegatns “serly” bee they were ncerned about permanent damage to his reer and reputatn. In turn, he chose to take them “serly but not factually.”</p><p class="">“I had no belief that this had happened,” Spacey said emphatilly.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Spacey also lamented that he ed the statement as an opportuny to e out to the general public.</p><p class="">“I would have never done anythg to hurt the gay muny,” he said, as tears welled up his ey. He explaed that he was cricized for appearg to nflate his sexual orientatn wh the allegatns: “It was wrong, was really bad, and I’m eply sorry.”</p><h2 class="">Duelg acunts of events</h2><p class="">Rapp and Spacey agreed they met each other sometime April 1986, when they were actg Broadway shows — Rapp wh Ed Harris “Prec Sons,” Spacey wh Jack Lemmon a productn of “Long Day’s Journey to Night.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">The two saw each other aga durg a sual gatherg Lemmon’s drsg room sometime that May. That night, Spacey took Rapp and Rapp’s iend John Barrowman to a rtrant and a nightclub. Spacey ttified that he felt attracted to Barrowman, who was 19 at the time.</p><p class="">“I was ptivated by John Barrowman,” Spacey said. </p><p class="">Spacey ttified that he ved Rapp and Barrowman back to his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Si after the club to troduce them to his dog and show them his view of the cy. He said that he and Barrowman had a brief “flirtat and playful moment” on a bed that was cut short bee Rapp was nearby.</p><p class="">Rapp alleged that sometime after that eveng, Spacey ved him to a party at his apartment. Rapp ttified that he did not regnize anyone at the party, so he went to a bedroom to watch televisn. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">He ttified that at some pot, an apparently dnken Spacey entered the bedroom, lifted him up, placed him on a bed and rted his full weight on top of him.</p><p class="">Spacey forcefully phed back on that acunt of events, sayg his ttimony that he never ved Rapp to a party or even spoke to him aga after their eveng wh Barrowman, a fellow actor who is now bt known the Uned Kgdom for his role on the show “Doctor Who.”</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Actor Anthony Rapp, right, and his partner Ken Ithiphol, arrive at feral urt New York on Oct. 19, 2022. " height="1600" width="2400"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Anthony Rapp, right, and his partner Ken Ithiphol, arrive at feral urt New York on Wednday. </span><span class="ptn__source">Angela Weiss / AFP - Getty Imag</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Spacey’s lawyers troduced evince they said supported their client’s nial, cludg a floor plan showg that at the time of the alleged cint, he lived a stud apartment that did not have a bedroom.</p><p class="">Jennifer Keller, one of Spacey’s lawyers, sought to nvce the jury that Rapp was bter not only about Spacey’s succs Hollywood, but also about beg the “third wheel” durg the eveng wh Barrowman. Rapp rejected that suggtn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Rapp, 50, is a seri regular on the Paramount+ seri “Star Trek: Disvery” and has appeared films such as “Dazed and Confed” and “A Betiful Md.” Spacey, 63, won Osrs for his performanc “The Usual Spects” and “Amerin Bety,” and earned a Tony for the play “Lost Yonkers.”</p><p class="">Spacey played a fictnal print on the Netflix drama “Hoe of Cards” before a wave of sexual misnduct allegatns 2017 led to his firg om the show and brought an abpt halt to his celebrated Hollywood reer.</p><h2 class="">Addnal legal issu</h2><p class="">Spacey’s legal wo do not end New York.</p><p class="">In the Uned Kgdom, he fac charg of <a href=">sexually assltg three men</a> a or more ago. <a href=">He plead not guilty</a> July at a hearg at London’s Central Crimal Court. He is expected to go on trial the U.K. startg June 6, acrdg to The Associated Prs.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Kaplan, the judge Spacey’s civil trial, did not allow Rapp’s lawyers to talk about the U.K. se. However, Rapp’s lawyers got a chance to qutn Andy Holtzman, a former employee of Manhattan’s Public Theater, who alleg that Spacey asslted him there 1981.</p><p class="">Spacey has nied that allegatn.</p><p class="endmark">Separately, a Los Angel judge led Augt that Spacey and his pani mt pay the producers behd “Hoe of Cards” nearly $31 ln bee of loss curred after he was fired for alleged sexual harassment of crew members, acrdg to urt documents.</p></div><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Daniel Ark</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Daniel Ark is a natnal reporter at NBC News.</p></div></div><div class="expand-ntributors">Diana Dasrath <!-- --> <!-- -->ntributed<!-- -->.</div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">New Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo

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Kev Spacey apologized and me out as gay a statement after the actor was acced of sexual advanc on an unrage actor.

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KEV SPACEY APOLOGIZ, OUT AS GAY AFTER ALLEGATN OF SEXUAL ADVANCE ON 14-YEAR-OLD

Spacey me out as gay a 2017 statement nyg a sexual misnduct allegatn ma by actor Anthony Rapp. * gay kevin spacey *

&#151; -- Actor Kev Spacey said that he has "loved and had romantic enunters wh men" and that he choos "now to live as a gay man, " after beg acced of a sexual advance on a 's remarks me a tweet posted on Sunday night after "Star Trek: Disvery” star Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey climbed on top of him bed when he was jt 14 years old. Kev Spacey sobbed on the stand Monday as he ttified about his remorse for g out as gay a statement nyg a sexual abe allegatn agast him. In a statement after the article was published, Spacey said he did not remember the enunter but acknowledged that he was gay.

"I have loved and had romantic enunters wh men throughout my life and choose now to live as a gay man, " he wrote at the time. He said he had been "phed heavily" by lears the gay muny to e out for years and had been planng to do so before Rapp's allegatns were levied "to put the qutn of my sexualy behd me. Kev Spacey nied accatns that he ma unwanted sexual advanc toward actor Anthony Rapp when the latter was a teenager and said the reason he waed so long to e out as gay was bee of his father's neo-Nazi beliefs, ttimony om Spacey's first day on the stand Rapp's $40 ln sexual civil misnduct lawsu.

KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY

Kev Spacey says he never publicly me out as gay bee his father was a neo-Nazi his trial wh Anthony Rapp. * gay kevin spacey *

In rponse to Rapp’s accatn that Spacey was a “d” for wag to e out as gay until after Rapp first publicly acced him 2017, Spacey said he “wasn't livg a lie. Spacey said he was so hant to reveal that part of his intify bee growg up, his father “was a whe supremacist and a neo-Nazi, ” who “ed to yell at” Spacey when he began beg terted theater “at the ia that I might be gay, ” the Associated Prs reported.

Spacey’s lawyers alleged Rapp believ his reer suffered bee he is openly gay, and was annoyed that Spacey did not suffer the same ramifitns by hidg his sexualy, acrdg to Vulture.

KEV SPACEY SAYS HE WAED UNTIL 58 TO COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS DAD ‘WAS A NEO-NAZI’

Is Kev Spacey gay, did he have a wife and has he been married before as the actor is set to be charged wh sexual asslt agast three men? * gay kevin spacey *

An alleged victim of the actor Kev Spacey has acced him urt of beg “sensive” after claimg his cisn to e out as gay was ed to “disguise” his actor was “hidg pla sight” as he allegedly directed a “mache gun” of vile sexual ments at the man a London theatre and grabbed him an timate area, a urt man told Southwark crown urt he felt “beltled” and “worthls” after the cint the mid-2000s and that the alleged asslt felt as if lasted an “eterny” wns said he felt “crlo that [Spacey] uld be so sensive” after claimg the actor’s cisn to e out as gay was “somebody not takg ownership” prevly heard how Spacey “smelled of booze” before he grabbed the man “like a bra” the cross-examatn om Spacey’s lawyer, Patrick Gibbs KC, the plaant scribed the alleged cint as “horrific” and said ma him feel “subhuman” the man took to the wns box on Thursday, Gibbs said: “I’m gog to suggt there are que a number of thgs that you told police that are pletely unte. Kev Spacey has addrsed his ntroversial 2017 statement which he me out as gay rponse to Anthony Rapp’s accatn of sexual misnduct.

He said some members of his team disagreed wh the urse of actn but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement which Spacey revealed he was gay. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual. Spacey's g outSpacey me out as gay after he was acced, and he mentned that he did not do sooner bee he did not want to be known for beg gay but for his actg, a statement that he later regretted bee he received enormo backlash om the LGBTQ+ muny and then had to apologize.

“A man who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he’s gay, who wants to be jt a normal guy, ” Gibbs said of Spacey.

KEV SPACEY ME OUT AS GAY TO ‘DISGUISE’ BEHAVUR, UK URT HEARS

By g out rponse to allegatns of sexual misnduct, Spacey jos other powerful men who have ployed gay inty to protect themselv, often at the expense of other LGBT people. * gay kevin spacey *

“A man who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he’s gay, who wants to be jt a normal guy, ” Gibbs said scribg his famo client.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Kev Spacey's statement where he me out as a gay man me as a parture for the actor, who has a long history of refg to ment on his private life" emprop="scriptn * gay kevin spacey *

"He challenged the Crown's claim that there was a "pattern of siary" between the accers bee three claim Mr Spacey "grabbed" them by the crotch, a term Mr Spacey prevly told the urt he "objected" told the jury was "easy" to lie nvcgly, pecially when is about someone such as Kev Spacey who he scribed as a man "who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he's gay who wants to be jt a normal guy to drk beer and lgh and smoke weed and s the ont and spend time wh younger people who he's attracted to" said perhaps Mr Spacey had led "a b of an odd life", but that was "a life that mak you an easy target when the ter turns agast you and you're tried by social media".

In rponse to the claims, which the actor nied, Spacey me out as a gay man — a reactn which was cricized by numero stars due to appropriate timg. In an terview wh Buzzfeed, Rent actor Rapp — who was openly gay and 46 at the time — alleged that Spacey ma appropriate sexual advanc on him when he was 14 years old. As part of Spacey's rponse to Rapp's claims about him, the Hoe of Cards actor me out as a gay man a statement posted on his Twter acunt.

Kev Spacey also me out as gay the Instagram the social media statement he wrote:“I have had relatnships wh both men and women.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

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“I have loved and had romantic enunters wh men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man, ” the statement reads. One nnot help but be eply sympathetic to the horrors and paranoia that the closet breeds, and to the way that gossip has historilly been ed to blackmail and punish gay men, pecially durg the time when Kev Spacey was growg up and tablishg himself Hollywood. But given the longstandg homophobic nflatn of gayns and pedophilia, Spacey’s statement self — as reactn piec the immediate aftermath have noted — rerc a harmful stereotype about queer people by implicly lkg allegatns of sexual misnduct wh a mor to his gay male inty.

KEV SPACEY OPENS UP ABOUT G OUT AS GAY AT AN OLD AGE BEE HE WAS RAISED BY A 'NEO-NAZI'

At this moment, when a “rpectable, ” straight-passg whe gay billnaire like Peter Thiel clar his sexual inty to support whe natnalism, has bee clear that gay inty n be weaponized by the more privileged to uphold tablished power stctur. Spacey’s polics are not nservative, but his strategic ployment of the rabow shield aligns him wh others who have wield their gay inty damagg ways.

”McGreevey’s strategic e of g out thst him to a nversatn about the modifitn of gay inty that went on throughout the ‘90s and ghts.

Terms like “homonormativy” ptured a sense that this kd of radil visn was beg replaced by assiatnist, rights-based, pro-palist polics that sought to empower the queer people who — for reasons of race, genr, abily, and cizenship — are most easily acmodated to mastream society. And ’s not jt “rpectable” cisgenr whe gay men like Thiel who have been helpg to uphold homophobic, racist, misogynist, and imperialist ends.

KEV SPACEY SAYS HE DIDN’T PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS FATHER WAS A ‘WHE SUPREMACIST AND A NEO-NAZI’

Durg his mpaign, Tmp happily jumped on gay natnalism to perform anti-Ml fearmongerg, claimg he would protect Amerin gays om homophobic Thiel is the most relevant example of someone strategilly g the polics of g out, specifilly, to mata his own power and damage the credibily of those who cricize him. (Before s mise, Gawker had also been postg gossip about Spacey’s sexual tert men — some highlightg "aggrsive" behavr and some merely speculatg about his homosexualy. Spacey ma clear 2010 that he rented this kd of qutng and gossip, accg a Daily Beast reporter who asked him whether he was gay of "g sexualy as a weapon" agast him, emphasizg his "right to privacy.

And yet now that his personal behavr is beg qutned, Spacey is fally willg to turn the personal polil, unambiguoly steppg out as a “gay man.

IS KEV SPACEY GAY, DID HE HAVE A WIFE AND HAS HE BEEN MARRIED BEFORE?

”Spacey’s g-out is a plited remr of the way that those clost to stutnal power and privilege — whether Hollywood, Silin Valley, or polics — have the luxury of choosg when to make gay inty polil.

Rapp’s acunt has started a difficult nversatn, given that accg gay men of sexual misnduct n be weaponized by anti-LGBT groups to “prove” that all queer people are viants.

KEV SPACEY IS NOT THE FIRST GAY MAN TO WEAPONIZE COMG OUT

But ’s important to remember that the accers the s are often queer people too: Rapp me out 1992, at a time when beg openly gay as an actor uld rry ser profsnal nsequenc. The timg of Spacey's sexualy announcement drew backlash om those believg he only me out to distract om Rapp's var media reports have suggted the past that Spacey was gay. In 1997, Esquire notorly published a story tled "Kev Spacey Has a Secret" that strongly implied that Spacey's sexualy was a well-known the article, thor Tom Junod says typil talkg pots about Spacey are that he "is supposed to be very smart, that he is supposed to be very private, that he is supposed to be extraordarily mted to the protectn and velopment of his extraordary gifts as an actor, and that he is supposed to be gay.

IS KEV SPACEY GAY? B, AGE, NET WORTH 2022, GAY, MARRIED, WIFE, HEIGHT

"Esquire has ma abundantly clear that they have now joed the ranks of distasteful journalism, and this mean-spired, homophobic, offensive article prov that the legacy of Joseph McCarthy is alive and well, " Spacey said a statement Spacey me out as gay Monday after optg not to addrs his sexualy for s. " The moment earned a lgh om the revealed he's gay once and for all a wrten statement, which he said he did not remember the alleged cint wh Rapp, but said he ow the actor an apology "if I did behave then as he scrib.

(Kev Wter/Getty Imag)"I have loved and had romantic enunters wh men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man, " he wrote the msage, which was published to Twter.

IS KEV SPACEY GAY?

Steele, a former edor for Out Magaze and The Advote, said he had long known that Spacey is gay, partly bee Rapp had told him his story.

Several celebri ed social media to exprs their displeasure at Spacey nnectg allegatns of sexual misnduct volvg a child to beg a gay man. Vany Fair movie cric Richard Lawson tweeted “This expos the gay muny to a ln tired old cricisms and nspiraci” and add “How dare you implite all this. In the same Twter post, Spacey says he has had relatnships wh both men and women and that he "choose[s] now to live as a gay man" is cricised by Sue Perks, Zachary Quto and others for choosg this moment to "e out".

"But wh the send half of his statement, Spacey sparks a h ntroversy when he out of the closet as a gay man rponse to Rapp's accatn, promptg a torrent of accatns om the LGBTQ muny for nflatg alleged pedophilia wh same day, actor Roberto Cavazos claims a post on his Facebook acunt that he had a "uple of unpleasant enunters" wh Spacey when the two were both performg at the Old Vic, cludg allegedly beg squeezed by Spacey the Old Vic bar. Kev Spacey's statement revealg he is gay me as a parture for the actor, who has a long history of refg to ment on his private life. Kev Spacey — who has been notorly protective over keepg his private life a secret — me out as gay Sunday after actor Anthony Rapp acced the Hoe of Cards star of appropriate sexual advanc when he was 14 years old.

AFTER YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD MOURS ’S NO SURPRISE KEV SPACEY HAS E OUT AS GAY

Spacey, 58, issued a statement late Sunday sayg he don’t remember the alleged cint, apologizg for “for what would have been eply appropriate dnken behavr” and announcg, “I choose now to live as a gay man. In 1997 — two years after he rose to promence wh his first Osr w for The Usual Spects — Esquire published an article tled “Kev Spacey Has a Secret, ” which foced on mors that the actor was gay. In 1999, he also nied to Playboy that he was gay, addg that the mors about his personal life hadn’t dissuad women om pursug him.

HOW DARE YOU, KEV SPACEY? YOU’VE FUELLED A VIC LIE ABOUT GAY MEN

After s of speculatn about his sexual orientatn, the former Hoe of Cards actor turned out to be gay October 2017, when 1986, when Rapp was 14 years old and Spacey was 26 years old, he apologized for dnk attemptg to kill him to sce gay actor Anthony Rapp.

He "disvered" Col Farrell a play and troduced him to Joel Schumacher who st him Tigerland%0D%0D Anyway I read some magaze years ago that Col was a ee spir and he ed to tag along wh his brother to gay clubs and dance the night was even a black and whe pic of young Col Anonymoreply 81June 5, 2011 9:04 AM.

IS ACTOR KEV SPACEY GAY? HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW

I thk that is the reason why people like Sger and Spacey don't like to be thought of as 'gay' Anonymoreply 111April 20, 2014 10:13 AM. We will be right about the T movement and s erasure of women & gays as well as s sexualizg of kids, jt like we were right about Spacey.

After all the years of fightg agast homosexualy equalg pedophilia, now we have an A list celebry who is flhg this all down the toilet. Acrdg to the Associated Prs, Spacey’s father was a whe supremacist and a neo-Nazi, who vehemently opposed his son’s tert theater and the possibily of him beg gay.

THREE MORE GAY RUMORS WE’VE HEARD ABOUT KEV SPACEY

Spacey’s fense team argued that Rapp believed his own reer had suffered bee he openly intified as gay, while Spacey had evad siar nsequenc by ncealg his sexualy, as reported by Vulture. Court 'I Was Promiscuo; It Don't Make Me a Bad Person'Kev Spacey Defends Comg Out as Gay After Beg Acced of Sexual Misnduct: 'I Was Unr a Lot of Prsure'Kev Spacey Deni He Grabbed Man's Genals on a Freeway: 'I Was Not on a Suici Missn'John, who played his last ever gig as a tourg artist Swen last week, was wearg a black jacket and whe shirt wh orange tted was asked whether he regnized one of the alleged victims who has acced Kev Spacey of sexual asslt and said he didn’t regnize the man or his name. He also cried as he said he regretted revealg publicly that he was gay the same day Rapp's accatns surfaced bee some terpreted his announcement as an effort to change the subject or flect om Rapp's revelatns.

Spacey had ttified that he spoke at the trial about eply personal matters, tellg the jury his father was a whe supremacist and neo-Nazi who berated him as gay bee he liked the theater. CommentThe LA Confintial star has always refed to say one way or the other but has fally revealed his sexualy amid appropriate behavur accatnsPublished: 23:22, 30 Oct 2017Updated: 8:44, 31 Oct 2017FEW Hollywood were shocked by Spacey’s nfirmatn he is gay. The suggtn was first aired 1997, when Esquire magaze ran a ont page headled “Kev Spacey has a Secret” and implied, to his then fury, that he was homosexual.

In 1999 however, he ma an about-turn on his policy of not discsg his private life by tellg Playboy mag gay mours ma him more attractive to women. A third claimed that while filmg Midnight the Garn of Good and Evil — which Spacey plays a gay character — he would equent gay bars Savannah, Geia, and ve a select group back to his own private party.

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