Kevin Spacey has reached a settlement with three men who sued him over sexual assault allegations, avoiding a civil trial in London scheduled for October, according to BBC News.
The men allege Spacey assaulted them between 2000 and 2013, and Spacey was set to receive a new trial in November. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Spacey denies all charges against him, but in 2023 he was acquitted in a British criminal court of sexual assault charges brought against him by four men, two of whom subsequently filed a civil lawsuit at the High Court in London.
One of the men who sued Spacey in civil court had also filed suit in 2022, but the case was put on hold while the criminal trial progressed. The man, who was granted anonymity by the court, claims he was sexually assaulted in August 2008 and that he has “suffered psychological harm and other financial losses” as a result. Another man claims Spacey assaulted him 12 times between 2000 and 2005.
A third man, Luari Cannon, waived his right to anonymity and claimed Spacey groped him at a 2013 party where he was performing in a play at the Old Vic, where Spacey was artistic director. Mr Cannon detailed his allegations in the 2024 Channel 4 documentary series Spacey Unmasked, to which Mr Cannon responded: “I have been given the time and appropriate forum to defend myself, but each time the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been acquitted.”
Spacey was also sued in New York civil court in 2022 by actor Anthony Rapp for sexual assault, but a jury found him not liable.
