Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not responsible on Thursday to fees of sexually assaulting three males a decade or extra in the past.
Spacey, 62, entered the plea throughout a listening to at London's Central Legal Court docket.
The previous Home of Playing cards star, who ran London's Outdated Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015, denied 4 counts of sexual assault and one rely of inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The incidents allegedly passed off in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims at the moment are of their 30s and 40s.
Area's lawyer beforehand stated the actor "strenuously denies" the allegations.
Spacey was granted bail and allowed to return to the USA after a preliminary listening to final month. A choose is predicted to set a timeline for his trial on Thursday.
Spacey received a finest supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 movie The Typical Suspects and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 film American Magnificence.
However his celebrated profession got here to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a celebration within the Eighties, when Rapp was a teen. Spacey denies the allegations.