A jury concluded Tuesday that Kevin Spacey did not molest fellow actor Anthony Rapp within the Eighties, bringing to a conclusion to a sexual misconduct civil trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo motion.
The decision within the Manhattan federal courtroom civil trial got here after jurors thought-about whether or not to consider Rapp's claims that he was psychologically broken after Spacey made a sexual advance on him in 1986, when he was simply 14 years outdated. Each have been comparatively unknown actors in Broadway performs.
Spacey testified that the encounter by no means occurred, and stated he was certain of it.
The 2017 claims by Rapp and others introduced an abrupt halt to two-time Academy Award winner Spacey's profession.
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