Kevin Spacey takes stand in his own defense, says allegations against him are not true - CNN

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Kevin Spacey has taken the basal arsenic the archetypal witnesser successful his ain defence successful the intersexual misconduct proceedings against him, brought by histrion Anthony Rapp.

In a effect to the archetypal question from his attorney, Jay Barron, Spacey said Rapp’s allegations are not true.

Earlier, attorneys for histrion Anthony Rapp finished presenting their lawsuit against Spacey.

Rapp, champion known for his relation successful “Star Trek: Discovery,” claims that successful 1986, Spacey, past 26, invited Rapp, past 14, to his Manhattan location wherever helium picked Rapp up, laid him down connected his bed, grabbed his buttocks and pressed his groin into Rapp’s assemblage without his consent. He is suing Spacey for battery.

In a large triumph for Spacey connected Monday, Judge Lewis Kaplan granted a defence petition to disregard a assertion of intentional infliction of affectional distress. Rapp’s lawyer tried to person Kaplan to support it in, but Kaplan said no.

Kaplan antecedently dismissed an battle assertion successful this lawsuit successful June.

Rapp’s lawyer had nary remark astir Monday’s ruling.

Spacey’s attorneys person attempted to poke holes successful Rapp’s claims by pointing to discrepancies, including dates Rapp claimed to person tally into Spacey astatine manufacture events.

Before ending his clip connected the basal past week, Rapp’s lawyer Peter Saghir asked the histrion if helium had been lying astir his allegations against Spacey.

“I person not. It was thing that happened to maine that was not okay,” Rapp testified.