Kevin Spacey Denies Anthony Rapp Assault, Says ‘Neo-Nazi’ Father Kept Him From Coming Out as Gay
thewrap.comwon a partial dismissal of the case against him when U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out Rapp’s claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The judge ruled those claims duplicated Rapp’s assault and battery claim, which now stands as the only remaining accusation in his $40 million civil lawsuit against Spacey.Rapp came forward in 2017 to claim Spacey lifted him onto a bed and pressed his full weight on top of him as a sexual advance after a party in 1986, when the “Star Trek” actor was 14 and Spacey was 26.
Spacey was asked directly about the accusations, the Associated Press reported.“They are not true,” Spacey said.Spacey was then asked whether he had kept his personal life private over the course of his career in the public eye.“I work in a very complicated family dynamic,” Spacey responded. “My father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi.
It meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing us about his beliefs.”Spacey said the experience made him hate “bigotry and intolerance,” and that “everything about what was happening in that house was something I had to keep to myself.
