NEW YORK — Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he by no means made a sexual go on the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to mattress when he was 14.
Identifying himself as “Kevin Spacey Fowler,” the actor was requested about Rapp’s claims {that a} then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom does a bride after a 1986 get together and put him on his mattress earlier than mendacity on prime of him.
Rapp testified earlier within the trial that he squirmed out from beneath Spacey within the absolutely clothed encounter earlier than fleeing the condo, solely to have Spacey comply with him to the door and ask if he was certain he wished to depart.
“They are not true,” Spacey stated of the allegations.
Then he was requested if he has been non-public about his private life over his profession.
“I work in a very complicated family dynamic,” he stated, saying rants by his white supremacist and neo-Nazi father when he was a teen led him to hate bigotry and intolerance.
Spacey stated his father’s thoughts was seemingly broken throughout unemployment ensuing from an unsuccessful quest to be a inventive author.
“My father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi,” Spacey stated. “It meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing us about his beliefs.”
He stated it was when “my hatred of bigotry and intolerance began.”
Spacey known as it “humiliating and terrifying when friends came over to the house” as a result of he was by no means certain what his father may say to them or to him.
“Everything about what was happening in that house was something I had to keep to myself. We never, ever, talked about it. I have never talked about these things publicly ever,” he stated.
As Spacey turned concerned about theater, he stated, he endured the screams of his father who “used to yell at me at the idea that I might be gay.”
Spacey’s testimony started two hours after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out a declare of intentional infliction of emotional misery after legal professionals for Rapp completed their presentation of proof.
Kaplan stated components of the declare duplicate Rapp’s declare that he was a sufferer of assault and battery.
Spacey’s lawyer argued for dismissal of the case on the grounds that Rapp’s attorneys had didn’t show his claims.
Kaplan stated the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old common on “Star Trek: Discovery” on tv. He was a part of the unique Broadway solid of “Rent.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”