Kevin Spacey Asks Judge to Toss Anthony Rapp's Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Associated Press.Rapp is known for his roles in Broadway's Rent and in the TV series Star Trek: Discovery.He filed a lawsuit against Spacey in 2020 claiming that the actor, who was 26, “engaged in a sexual advance” by grabbing Rapp’s buttocks and then laying himself over Rapp after pulling him onto a bed.
Rapp, who was 14, says that he “was forced to extricate himself” before exiting the party.Spacey’s lawyers wrote in the court documents that there is no evidence that the contact was anything sexual and that Spacey only picked up the 14-year-old before Rapp “wiggled out.”Lawyers for Rapp did not respond to the AP’s request for comment.Rapp went public with his allegations in 2017, and he wasn’t the only one to accuse Spacey of sexual abuse.
