Kevin Spacey was back on the witness stand today in the trial of the $40 million sexual misconduct civil lawsuit filed by Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp.
The American Beauty and The Usual Suspects Oscar winner faced cross-examination by Rapp’s attorneys in a Manhattan courtroom a day after threw out Rapp’s claim of emotional distress as the prosecution rested.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan began the morning by denying Rapp lawyer Richard Steigman’s motion to introduce another Spacey accuser to the jurors through a deposition the man gave that Kaplan previously had barred.
Spacey then spent the morning and early afternoon fielding questions in a cross often bogged down by defense objections. The much-accused actor, who cried on the stand Monday as he began his testimony, was composed today as he defended himself and his memory of long-ago events and insisted in court — as he had in past depositions — that his history with Rapp was “peripheral and limited.” Steigman also asked Spacey about getting Rapp, then 14, and his friend John Barrowman — two under-age males — into the Limelight, a New York City nightclub where Barrowman, then 19, drank alcohol.
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