by Paul Serran
In a civilized society, a person is innocent until proven guilty. That applies to everyone, including Kevin Spacey. Even if there are numerous, persistent allegations that form a recognizable pattern in his life.
This article gathers disturbing information on Spacey, not because of his distinguished work, but because of some associations he made in life, and because the visible price he has been paying for his alleged appetites helps paint a picture of our artistic establishment.
His career is not the focus of this piece, but suffice to say between a few classics, some blockbusters and many flops, Spacey won two Oscars and a myriad other awards, having established himself as one of the top players in his trade.
Whether it was small-time conman Verbal Kint revealed to be criminal mastermind Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects, or the corrupt House ‘Whip’ turned into murderous criminal president Frank Underwood in House of Cards, there is a common element at play.
He often played the man that could get away with it.
But now, his actions seem to have caught up with him.
Kevin Spacey Fowler was born in New Jersey, but grew up in Southern California. His family may or may not have influenced the kinds of problems he is having now. How? His older brother, Randy, from whom Spacey is estranged, stated their father was sexually and physically abusive.
Was that true? We can’t know for sure, but while Spacey has denied his brother’s allegations and described his father as a “very normal, middle-class man”, we can also note that he decided to use his mother’s family name, Spacey, and not his father’s Fowler.
Throughout his thirty year career across film, television, and theater, Spacey has mostly refused to indulge in revelations of a personal nature, and tried to keep the media holophotes out of his intimacy.
‘Everybody has the right to a private life, no matter what their professions are.’
His sexuality, mostly, was a guarded secret never to be discussed. ‘I chose for a long time not to answer these questions because of the manner in which they were asked, and because I was never talking to someone I trusted, so why should I? Recently, I chose to participate because it’s a little hard on the people I love.’
The Hollywood star has developed deep ties to England, where he took the job as artistic director of the traditional Old Vic Theatre.
He promised both to appear on stage and to bring in big-name talent to the productions. While critics applauded his acting and taking on the management of a theatre, they also noted that his skills and judgment as a producer/manager had yet to develop.
In 2008, Spacey started the Kevin Spacey Foundation in the UK to “encourage youth involvement in the arts’. It provided grants to help young people study the arts. [The foundation was to be shut down in 2018 following his involvement in sexual misconduct allegations.]
His cultural and charitable in England led him to become acquainted with celebrities and luminaries of the upper class, and ultimately his being a KBE Knight by the Royal Crown.
He was held in such high regard that Prince Andrew allegedly wanted Spacey to help clear his name by telling a jury – in the Virginia Roberts sex assault lawsuit – that Ghislaine Maxwell was Spacey’s guest (not Andrew’s) during a tour of Buckingham Palace in 2002, which was arranged for former US President Bill Clinton and other VIPs.
A photo shows Maxwell and Spacey smiling as they sit on the Queen’s and Prince Philip’s Coronation thrones.
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Back in the US, the media fawned over his bromance with President Bill Clinton.
“We, in fact, have spent so much time together that sometimes I even become him,” Spacey has said in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center.
A democratic donor, he met Bill Clinton in the White House, and a real bond seemed to have emerged. They were always talking on the phone, often collaborating on philanthropic work.
After leaving office, Clinton brought the movie star into his work with the shady Clinton Foundation.
One of the most troublesome instances of their collaboration is the five-day swing through Africa, in which he and fellow actor Chris Tucker accompanied Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their band of girls.
The public agenda was to promote efforts to fight AIDS, and they joined Nelson Mandela onstage to address a crowd of teenagers about H.I.V. awareness.
What really happened in this trip is a mystery.
Allegations and investigations.
2017: Spacey, who was then playing President Frank Underwood in House of Cards to great success, was kicked off the series during its sixth season after facing allegations that he had sexually assaulted and preyed upon young men, including a production assistant in the series who said Spacey groped him.
1986: intoxicated 26-year-old Spacey allegedly sexually assaults Anthony Rapp, who wass then 14 years old.
Spacey invited the underage actor to a party at his home. At the end of the evening, a drunk Spacey picked him up “like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold“, put him on the bed, and forcibly held him down. “He was trying to seduce me,” Rapp said. “He was trying to get with me sexually.”
As the story broke in 2017, Spacey declared not to remember the incident, and wrote: he owed Rapp “the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior” if he had indeed behaved as asserted. If.
The floodgates were opened: no less than fifteen other people came forward, including Boston anchorwoman Heather Unruh, who alleged that Spacey sexually assaulted her son; filmmaker Tony Montana; actor Roberto Cavazos; Richard Dreyfuss’s son Harry; and EIGHT people who worked on House of Cards.
In the UK, “a number of people” also came forward in the press, alleging that Spacey “groped and behaved in an inappropriate way with young men” when he worked as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre.
His career took a mortal blow. He was fired from projects, scrapped from Ridley Scott’s film, cancelled across the board.
Spacey decided it was finally time to play his ‘gay card’, and came out as gay when apologizing to Rapp. “I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.”
The blowback from the gay community was ferocious, and he was severely criticized for using his drunkenness as an excuse for making a sexual advance on a minor, making a connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse.
Legal troubles
Scotland Yard revealed three more allegations, bringing the number of open investigations in the UK to six.
Lawsuit filed at LA Superior Court claimed Spacey assaulted a masseur at a house in Malibu, California, in October 2016.
Spacey was charged with a felony for allegedly sexually assaulting an 18-year-old in Massachusetts, in 2016. The man filed a lawsuit claiming emotional damages. In 2019, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the claims with prejudice, which led to the criminal assault charge against Spacey being dropped.
When the anonymous massage therapist who accused him died, the last criminal case against Spacey was closed. It seemed that he was indeed the man who can get away with it. But was he, really?
In 2020, Rapp sued Spacey for sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress under the Child Victims Act.
Finally, in 2022, Spacey was charged in the UK with four counts of sexual assault and one count of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent” (i.e. rape).
The actor is out on unconditional bail, has denied all allegations of sexual offense, pleaded not-guilty to the charges, and his case will go to trial.
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In 2020, Spacey and his production companies were ordered by an arbitrator to pay $31 million to MRC, the studio that produced House of Cards, for violating its sexual harassment policy with respect to FIVE “House of Cards” crew members, and for the costs involved in removing him from the series.
This decision was confirmed in May 2022 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana.
I guess we can say that he has literally started to pay a hefty price for his behavior.
In a civilized society, it is agreed that a person is held innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. That applies to everyone, including Hollywood star Kevin Spacey.
A person is held to be innocent until proven guilty, even if there are numerous, persistent allegations that form a recognizable pattern in his life – and there are.
Is he the man who gets away with it? Time will tell.
PROLOGUE
Some developments have taken place that suggest Spacey will ‘get away with it’. Or maybe he is innocent.
Concerning the latest civil trial in New York, Spacey was found not liable in Anthony Rapp sex abuse case.
‘Kevin Spacey was found not liable Thursday in the sexual abuse trial brought against him by Anthony Rapp. […] Rapp, 50, and Spacey, 63, each testified over several days during the three-week trial.’
His testimony in the suit is significant in some ways:
“They are not true,” Spacey said of the allegations.
He testified that he never had ‘any sexual interest in Anthony Rapp or any child. That I knew’.
Why did he have to add the ‘That I knew‘ part?
Protection against perjury?
He also opened up about a family secret that only his estranged brother had talked about: ‘My father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. […] My siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing us about his beliefs.’
‘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’.
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Spacey’s lawyer: ‘What’s next is Mr. Spacey is going to be proven that he’s innocent of anything he’s been accused of. That there was no truth to any of the allegations.’
Some rehabilitation is ongoing for the actor. ‘Kevin Spacey is set to make his first speaking gig in five years with a masterclass at Italy’s National Museum of Cinema in Turin, where he will also receive a lifetime achievement award.’
It will be ‘an onstage conversation on Jan. 16, 2023, in the auditorium of Turin’s iconic Mole Antonelliana domed tower, which houses the film museum’.
‘Turin is the city where the U.S. actor last year returned to acting, starring as a police detective in the Franco Nero-directed low budget indie drama “L’uomo Che Disegnò Dio” (“The Man Who Drew God”).
The British criminal prosecutions are not over and are not to be dismissed. If these were false allegations against him, or else isolated episodes, this tends to calm down now, and leave Spacey with some room for re-entering the cultural industry.
However, if things are what they appear, and that was a pattern of behavior, the odds are his troubles might not be over.
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Frank parlato, love your blog
Thank you. I have a few who don’t like it at all but somehow can’t resist reading it.
Dear ‘Kevin is Innocent’-
Most of Hollywood knew
Kevin Spacey is/was a sexual predator.
It was even alluded to in a 2005 episode of the hit show Family Guy:
https://youtu.be/3RtjdbHG96k
LMAO! I know you’ll claim it doesn’t prove anything and I say to you,
“FU tool-bag. Why do think the joke exists? Go back to whacking-off to Frog-Pants drawings.”
Spacey is innocent. Greed controls.
Kevin Spacey was one of the first men to push back against the Me Too movement, he has actively and emphatically maintained his innocence.
And yes, it is vital to uphold the principle of Innocent Until Proven Guilty.
The Massachusetts case against the actor quickly fell apart. He was accused of sexually assaulting an 18 year old busboy at The Club Car Restaurant on Nantucket Island. When the dust settled, it appeared that the “sexual assault” was pretty much consensual and that both the civil lawsuit and the criminal complaint had been the young man’s mother’s idea.
Quoting from https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-accused-kevin-spacey-nantucket-sex-assault-testifies/story?id=64190443
“Before deciding part of the way through his testimony to exercise his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Spacey’s accuser confirmed under questioning from the actor’s lead defense attorney that he did not report the alleged assault to police for 15 months, rather than the three months prosecutors have been contending…
“After a series of significant blows to the prosecution’s case against Spacey during the daylong hearing, the presiding judge noted that it was unclear whether the case would “continue or collapse.”
[The prosecution fudged the truth]
“The lead investigator in the case also acknowledged for the first time on Monday that he did not advise the accuser or his mother to preserve the contents of the phone for evidence, and that he took Unruh at her word when she told him that she had deleted some potentially embarrassing “frat boy activities” from her son’s phone”
[The accuser tampered with evidence]
“Massachusetts State Police trooper Gerald Donovan testified under questioning from Spacey defense attorney Alan Jackson. “I didn’t think that Heather Unruh would be lying to me, so yes, I did take her at her word.”
“Donovan also testified that he did not file any paperwork reporting Unruh’s voluntary admission about the deletions until just last month — nearly three years after the alleged incident
[police did nothing about the apparent evidence tampering]
“…the phone authorities apparently returned to the alleged victim’s family has been irretrievably lost…
…the accuser and his parents do not even recall ever receiving the phone back from police…
[The key piece of evidence somehow went missing]
…a replacement phone for the accuser that could potentially have uploaded data from the phone he used the night he met Spacey in July, 2016 was either lost or stolen during a trip to Europe
[Not one, but two phones conveniently vanished]
“Donovan later testified that no documentation was generated when he returned the cell phone to the family.
“Unfortunately I was remiss and I didn’t have them sign for a receipt,” he said from the witness stand…
“a civil lawsuit against Spacey over the alleged incident was filed last month but abruptly withdrawn last week
“the civil lawsuit was dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning it can’t be refiled
“Unruh held a press conference to allege that Spacey had forcibly stuck his hand down her then-18-year-old son’s pants and groped his genitals, tearfully calling the actor a “sexual predator.”
The alleged victim, who told police he lied to Spacey about his age, saying he was a 23-year-old college student at Wake Forest University
“he alleges that Spacey started rubbing his thigh and then unzipped the victim’s pants and began groping his genitals.
The busboy told detectives that “he wasn’t sure if Spacey went into his pants through the open zipper” or if the actor groped his genitals over his pants and boxer shorts.”
[Convenient lapses of memory, a story that keeps changing]
“The alleged victim told investigators that while Spacey was touching him, he was texting and communicating with his girlfriend and other friends on Snapchat”
[That’s where the missing phone comes in. The defense contended that its contents would have exonerated Spacey, that these two men were flirting, there was no sexual assault.]
“He alleged the inappropriate touching continued for about three minutes”
[if some guy was groped my junk in a restaurant, I would have done something about it other than chatting with friends on Snapchat. For three minutes]
“After being questioned by Jackson on the witness stand about whether he was aware that it’s against the law to delete potentially exculpatory data from a piece of evidence in a criminal probe, the proceedings were recessed and after some time the accuser informed the judge through a representative that he intended to exercise his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and decline to provide further testimony”
And that was the end of that.
Of course Spacey may be guilty in some of the cases still pending. But the Nantucket prosecution was garbage. Fortunately justice prevailed once again and he was exonerated.
Sausage-
Why’d you write this giant comment?
Obama and Biden together can not fill half an arena.
Obama & Biden Together Can’t Fill Half an Arena Right Before Midterms
Well, but they seem to have filled up the queues to the ballot boxes, and that’s where it counts. Maybe you should switch your alliance to Defuture!
He was my favorite actor. Such a talent – and so fucked up. The young men aren’t lying.
He’s disgusting. He’ll get nailed in Britain.
Acting skills payoff in the courtroom. So much for innocent until proven guilty- when he’s made to pay 31 million. It’s all about the money.
They’ll hold his feet to the fire in London.
Much ado about nothing methinks. Is there any point to this ‘story’? What are you really trying to say? Your implications seems to be that because a load of people have come forward, he is probably guilty, even if the courts have so far not reached that conclusion. As many of these prosecutions were civil, the courts cleared him on the balance of evidence.
Kevin Spacey follows a similar pattern time after time.
He gets drunk and hits on young men.
Kevin Spacey was an equal opportunity bar bathroom predator. Years before these allegations came to light he’d assaulted a young woman who recounted it privately.
She was deeply upset but never went public or involved law enforcement. There’s probably mamt, many others who haven’t either.
Yet.
Back then Kevin did not identify as “gay”. He identified as an actor who would get his dick sucked by any means necessary.
Problem is you don’t know, and I don’t know, whether he did or didn’t. The only people who know that are the woman and Kevin. The whole point of having courts is to determine the truth, and like it or not, people are innocent until proven guilty.
From a gossip web site
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/10510884-kevin-spacey
Kevin Spacey
I know from a source that Kevin Spacey could be “mean” with his hook-ups. On another thread someone mentioned something similar. Does anyone have some knowledge, because I have heard some creepy things about the guy.
by Anonymous reply 227 April 30, 2019 10:52 PM
Spacey is a predator. He likes young-ish men. He accosted an actor in a men’s room. He uses roofies. I have heard from 3 actors that he is creepy and predatory from their personal experience. He drugs his prey.
by Anonymous reply 3 June 2, 2011 10:05 PM
I’ve heard similar stories as r3. MY friends straight brother could not shake him at a party. The brother was a young guy at the time and Spacey would not leave him alone. Everyone involved was pretty disgusted with Spacey.
by Anonymous reply 5 June 2, 2011 10:08 PM
THe person I was thinking of worked as a doorman in a NYC hotel. I think KS really hurt him during a sexual encounter.
by Anonymous reply 6 June 2, 2011 10:09 PM
Oh my god – he’s the recording artists (Bobby Darin) who was in a group (The Usual Suspects) who likes to beat up male prostitutes!
by Anonymous reply 7 June 2, 2011 10:13 PM
Back in the late 90s a straight male friend of mine thats a film maker met him at some industry event in NYC. He got talking to him, thought he was really cool and all. They left the party and hit some bars and got amazingly drunk. My friend thought it would be easier if they crashed at his family’s place nearby rather go back home. He woke up in the middle of the night to a terrible ruckus. Seems his new “friend” sneaked into the bedroom of his 14 year old brother and was trying to remove his pants. Little bro woke up and clocked him right the face. Spacey ran out of the place. Prior to all this, when the two were drinking, he learned that Spacey was due to attend another event the next night that my friend was also invited to. Spacey was a no show the next night.
by Anonymous reply 8 June 2, 2011 10:30 PM
He’s a freak judging from the r8’s story. Doesn’t he realize that he was a celebrity and people would talk. %0D %0D Why didn’t the guy have him arrested?
by Anonymous reply 9 June 2, 2011 10:35 PM
I told a similar story on here before about Spacey pushing himself on my best friend’s straight young (19) housemate in Savannah during Midnight in the Garden filming and people accused me of lying. He had met a group of my friends at one of the local bars and bought them all drinks. The group of them went back to my friend’s place and they all smoked pot. At one point, they caught Spacey trying to steal their bag of weed and then he tried to stick his hand down his housemate’s pants. He was creepy to a lot of the SCAD boys.
by Anonymous reply 12 June 2, 2011 11:07 PM
Spacey visted Daniel Radcliffe backstage during EQUUS and was ALL OVER him. Radcliffe was very creeped out.
by Anonymous reply 20 June 3, 2011 2:41 AM
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/10510884-kevin-spacey
A lot of anonymous sources there, Shadow. Can we have a few more conspiracy myths about Hunter?
No doubt you still believe that Paul Lynde was straight.
I wish someone would copy and paste the transcript offered on YouTube – – and convert the computer transcription into what he said, how he said it.
It’s 40% word salad, 30% hogwash and 30% deceitful manipulation.
How were such smart people so fooled or so long? Why didn’t the authorities bust up that operation sooner?
Clever and a talented actor. They know how to work it. He’s lived a life as a closeted homosexual- he’s a practiced liar and manipulator. When you pretend to be straight when you know you’re gay, literally everything you do and say is a lie.
And they say ‘brainwashing’ is a myth…Just look into those ‘sicko’phantic eyes and tell me that’s true!