Wednesday, November 1, 2017

All the men who have accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct

Anonymous man with "authority in the industry"

A man who has asked to remain anonymous, but described himself as in a "position of responsibility and authority in the industry," told the BBC that he was left "traumatized" after an incident in 1984, when he woke to find Spacey "lying on" him.

The man, named "John" in the interview, said he met Spacey at a summer theater when he was 16. The following year, he stayed with Spacey, then an up-and-coming Broadway actor, at his New York City apartment, where the alleged incident occurred.

John said Spacey tried to get him to sleep in his bed, but John chose to sleep on a couch instead, and woke up to find Spacey's "head was on my stomach, and his arms were wrapped around my torso." John said he was fully clothed, and Spacey was in his underwear.

John said he did not believe anything sexual took place, but he was left feeling "uncomfortable at best, traumatized at worst."

Tony Montana

Tony Montana

Independent filmmaker Tony Montana told Radar Online that Spacey groped him at a Los Angeles bar in 2003, when Montana was in his 30s.

"I went up to order a drink and Kevin came up to me and put his arm around me,” Montana told the outlet. "He was telling me to come with him, to leave the bar. He put his hand on my crotch forcefully and grabbed my whole package."

Montana said Spacey then told him, "This designates ownership." After Montana removed Spacey's hand and walked away, Spacey allegedly followed him into the bathroom. Montana said Spacey appeared intoxicated.

"I backed him out the door and I pushed him," he said. "One of his friends was in line and I said, ‘It’s time to take your boy home.’ They all ended up leaving."

Montana said that he suffered from PTSD for six months following the alleged incident.

Roberto Cavazos

Roberto Cavazos

Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos wrote a Facebook post accusing Spacey of trying to touch him against his will at the bar of London's Old Vic Theatre in 2008.

Spacey was the artistic director of the theater from 2004 to 2015, and Cavazos appeared in numerous plays there, starting in 2008.

"I don't remember how many people told me the same story: Spacey would invite them to meet him to 'talk about their careers,'" Cavazos wrote. "When they arrived at the theatre, [Spacey] had prepared champagne on the stage, beautifully lit. Each story varied in how far the picnic went, but the technique was the same. More common was to find him at the bar of the theatre, grabbing whoever caught his attention."

"There are many of us who have a 'Kevin Spacey story,'" he continued. "It seems the only requirement was to be a male under the age of 30 for Mr Spacey to feel free to touch us. It was so common that it became a local joke (of very bad taste)."

Anthony Rapp

Anthony Rapp

In a late October article published by BuzzFeed News, "Star Trek: Discovery" actor Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him when he was 14 and Spacey was 26.

The alleged incident took place in 1986, when Rapp and Spacey were cast members in a Broadway production. Rapp said Spacey invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment. He said that Spacey later found him watching TV in a bedroom, where Spacey picked him up, placed him on the bed, lay on top of him, and made a sexual advance.

"I still to this day can't wrap my head around so many aspects of it. It's just deeply confusing to me," Rapp told BuzzFeed News.

Spacey subsequently apologized to Rapp in a statement, and said that he did "not remember the encounter," but that if it happened it "would have been deeply inappropriate, drunken behavior."


Source: Business Insider India