Kevin Spacey Wins Partial Dismissal Of Anthony Rapp’s claims
etcanada.comA judge dismissed Monday one of the legal claims Kevin Spacey faces from actor Anthony Rapp, who says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in his apartment in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out the claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence.
Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate Rapp’s claim that he was a victim of assault and battery. Spacey’s lawyer argued for dismissal of the case on the grounds that Rapp’s attorneys had failed to prove his claims. READ MORE: Actor Tells Jury Kevin Spacey Abused Him When He Was 14 Kaplan said the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old regular on “Star Trek: Discovery” on television.
He was part of the original Broadway cast of Rent. Spacey, 63, is expected to testify later Monday. Spacey was an Oscar-winning actor popular on the Netflix series “House of Cards” when claims by Rapp and others in 2017 abruptly derailed his career.
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