“What happened to Anthony is something that never should have happened,” Anthony Rapp’s lawyer said during his opening statement. “The conduct here involved a 14-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man.”
Spacey’s legal team countered that Rapp’s lawsuit was an attempt to gain “attention, sympathy and to raise his own profile.”
“He never became the international star that Kevin Spacey did,” Jennifer Keller, an attorney for Spacey, said in her opening statement. “He has been simmering and simmering with resentment all this time.” The defense also argued that Rapp’s accusations mirror scenes from the playRapp, who currently stars on, is expected to testify during the civil trial, as will Andy Holtzman, another alleged Spacey victim who claims the actor groped him years earlier.
Outside of the civil suit, Spacey is still set to face trial on five sexual assault charges in London in June 2023. Spacey has pleaded
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