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Kevin Spacey accuser Anthony Rapp testified Tuesday that watching some of the veteran star’s flicks “felt unpleasantly familiar,” — particularly his seduction of a teen cheerleader in the 1999 hit film “American Beauty.”Rapp, 50, is suing the Oscar-winning actor for $40 million in Manhattan federal court, claiming Spacey tried to seduce him when he was 14 and attending a party at the then-26-year-old star’s Manhattan apartment.Rapp told jurors he was traumatized by the encounter, and uneasy when he watched the “American Beauty” scene where Spacey’s character, Lester Burnham, becomes “sexually involved with a teenage girl.” He said he had a similar reaction when he saw Spacey’s role as a workplace sexual harasser in the 1988 movie “Working Girl.”Rapp, an openly gay actor whose roles include the Broadway hit “Rent,” said he felt “as if someone poked me with a cattle prod,” and “jumped out of my seat.” while watching the film. But Rapp said he felt compelled to watch the movies because, as an actor, “I felt it was part of my job to see them.“As a fellow actor, I thought I had to do my best to get over it,” Rapp said.

Anthony Rapp said watching Kevin Spacey play a suburban dad obsessed with a teenage cheerleader in “American Beauty” was a disturbing reminder of his own traumatic experience with the Oscar-winning actor. The two men are locked in a courtroom battle over Rapp’s $40 million civil lawsuit, in which he alleges that Spacey made unwanted sexual advances when Rapp was 14 years old and Spacey was 26. Watching Spacey as Lester Burnham ogling his high school age daughter’s best friend was “unpleasantly familiar,” Rapp said while taking the stand in New York City on Tuesday. “American Beauty” was the last film of Spacey’s that he watched. Rapp says his alleged encounter with Spacey took place in 1986, but he continued watching the actor’s films because “they were by and large very acclaimed” and he “felt it was my duty to do so.”

Actor Anthony Rapp was back on the witness stand today in the sexual misconduct civil trial of two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey. It’s Day 3 of testimony in the $40 million lawsuit being tried in U.S. Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, after taking Monday off for the holiday.

Ethan Shanfeld English pop singer Rex Orange County, whose real name is Alexander O’Connor, has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman on six separate occasions in London. The 24-year-old artist appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday to deny the allegations. After pleading not guilty to all six charges, O’Connor was released on unconditional bail. A provisional trial date has been set for Jan. 3, 2023. O’Connor allegedly assaulted the woman twice in the West End on June 1 and four additional times the next day, once in a taxi and three times at his home in Notting Hill.

An actor who’s accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance on him as a 14-year-old recounted the episode for a New York City jury on Friday, testifying he felt helpless when Spacey climbed on top of him in bed.

Actor Anthony Rapp began testifying today in his sexual misconduct lawsuit against Kevin Spacey, with initial questioning covering only his upbringing in the Chicago suburbs before the court took a lunch recess.

Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct on Friday morning in federal court, where the actor is attempting to fight back against “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp’s $40 million civil lawsuit. Attorneys for Rapp, who claims Spacey made unwanted sexual advances against the actor when he was 14 and Spacey was 26, called Andrew Holtzman to the stand. Holtzman testified that he was groped by Spacey in 1981. At the time, Holtzman worked at the Public Theatre and Spacey was in actor in the non-profit organization’s Shakespeare Festival. Holtzman alleged that he was working in his office when Spacey entered and attempted to force himself on the man. He said that he had recognized Spacey, then an obscure actor, from a photograph in the Playbill. When Spacey entered the room, he was “wearing tight blue jeans” and “had a very clear, large erection.” Holtzman grew alarmed after the actor approached him aggressively.

Lawyers acting for Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp delivered their opening statements as part of a civil trial held at a Manhattan federal court on Thursday. The Star Trek: Discovery actor sued Spacey in 2020 for assault, battery, and intentionally inflicting emotional distress, after first making public accusations in October 2017. Rapp has claimed Spacey made sexual advances towards him in 1986 when he was just 14 and both were performing on Broadway.

Kevin Spacey’s lawyer told a jury Thursday that a sexual misconduct allegation that derailed his theatrical career was the product of a young actor’s inability to tell the difference between real life and a scene he played on Broadway eight times a week.

Kevin Spacey claim that Anthony Rapp manufactured sexual misconduct allegations against the Oscar-winning actor because he was jealous of his success and angry about his own stalled career. “He blames Mr. Spacey for everything that hasn’t gone well in his life,” Jennifer L. Keller, an attorney for Spacey said Thursday during opening arguments in the actor’s civil trial. Rapp, Keller added, “peaked around the year 2000 and he grew bitter about not getting parts as an openly gay man.” Spacey was on hand in Manhattan federal court as his lawyers attempted to fight back against Rapp’s $40 million civil lawsuit. Rapp is claiming that Spacey made unwanted sexual advances at him in 1986 when Spacey was 26 and Rapp was 14 years old. Rapp’s legal team made a point of reminding the jury that the actor was only a teenager at the time of the alleged assault, sharing a photograph of him in which he had a comb over haircut, wore glasses and appeared very boyish. They reminded the jurors not to think of Rapp as the 50-year-old actor who was watching the proceedings, but as the boy he once was.

Opening statements have begun today in Kevin Spacey’s trial over sex abuse claims by Star Trek Discovery’s Anthony Rapp. The proceedings in a New York federal courtroom come as Harvey Weinstein, Danny Masterson and Paul Haggis all face sex crimes trials of their own starting next week.

Kevin Spacey arrived to court Thursday for his civil sexual assault trial, after Broadway star Anthony Rapp accused the beleaguered actor of trying to seduce him when he was a teen. Rapp made the allegations in 2017 to BuzzFeed, marking the first in a string of sexual misconduct claims that left Spacey fighting for his career. The "House of Cards" star, 63, arrived Thursday morning to Manhattan federal court for jury selection in the civil trial, which is expected to last two weeks and feature testimony from both men.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp are set to square off in a federal courtroom on Thursday, in the first of four #MeToo trials to get underway this month in New York and Los Angeles. The other three trials involve producer Harvey Weinstein, director Paul Haggis and actor Danny Masterson. The four cases — two civil, two criminal — each involve at least one sexual assault allegation against a once-powerful celebrity whose career was badly damaged, if not destroyed, in the court of public opinion. Coming five years after the #MeToo movement began, the trials will involve similar themes — power imbalances in the entertainment industry, the dynamics of sexual assault, the reliability of memories, and the nature of due process.

Wolfgang Petersen, the Oscar-nominated director of "In The Line Of Fire", "Air Force One" and "The Perfect Storm," has died due to pancreatic cancer, his representative confirmed to Fox News Digital. He was 81. The German filmmaker died peacefully on Friday at his Brentwood, California home in the arms of his wife of 50 years, Maria Antoinette.  In 1981, Petersen made his breakthrough with the German-language WWII film "Das Boot", which he wrote and directed.The submarine epic received six Academy Award nominations, with Petersen scoring nods for best director and best adapted screenplay.

producers of House of Cards over losses relating to allegations of sexual misconduct by the actor, after losing an appeal over the sum.  Spacey had sought to overturn an arbitration order requiring him to pay media company MRC damages following "explosive" allegations involving young crew members that led to his firing from the popular Netflix show in 2017. But Los Angeles Judge Mel Red Recana found that Spacey and his lawyers “fail to demonstrate that this is even a close case”, according to documents seen by the Press Association.

A judge has ruled that Kevin Spacey must pay $31 million (£26 million) to House of Cards producers for derailing the series when he was fired over allegations of misconduct. Officials for MRC, the production company behind the Netflix series, filed a petition in November to confirm that an arbitrator had ordered the actor to pay almost $31 million to them after finding that he breached his contract by violating their sexual harassment policy. Spacey's team sought to dismiss the ruling in January.

Kevin Spacey owes more than $30 million to the producers of House of Cards after being fired from the Netflix series in 2017.

Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay the “House of Cards” production company, MRC, $31 million after it was determined he breached his contract and was fired for alleged sexual misconduct.

Kevin Spacey has lost his bid to overturn a $31million (£25.5million) arbitration award he was ordered to pay to the producers of House Of Cards.The actor, who was fired from the Netflix series in 2017, was ordered in November to pay the sum to production company MRC following allegations of sexual misconduct involving young crew members working on the show.Spacey filed to have the order overturned, but his request was denied by a judge in Los Angeles on Thursday (August 4).As reported by PA, Judge Mel Red Racana found that Spacey and his attorneys “fail to demonstrate that this is even a close case” and “do not demonstrate that the damages award was so utterly irrational that it amounts to an arbitrary remaking of the parties’ contracts”.The actor was dropped from the Netflix series following allegations of sexually preying on young men.

Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay 'House of Cards' producers $31 million. The 63-year-old actor was dropped from the Netflix series in 2017 after being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple young men and he was later sued by programme makers MRC for breach of contract after they said he had violated the company's sexual harassment policy, and on Thursday (04. 08.

Kevin Spacey was ordered by a judge Thursday to pay $31 million to the producers of "House of Cards" after he was fired in 2018 following alleged sexual misconduct behind the scenes of the political drama. The 63-year-old disgraced actor, who starred on the Netflix show from 2013-17, was accused of preying on multiple young men, including a production assistant, which prompted an investigation by the MRC production company and ultimate termination of Spacey from his role in addition to any producing contracts.