Kevin Spacey’s defense team lodges sickening attack on Anthony Rapp in sexual misconduct trial
queerty.comRelated: Kevin Spacey is back!… with four new sexual assault chargesYesterday, Peter Saghir, Rapp’s lawyer, asked the Star Trek: Discovery actor if he decided to tell his story to Buzzfeed in 2017 to raise his public profile (as suggested by Spacey’s lawyer).“I came forward because I knew I was not the only one Kevin Spacey had made advances to,” Rapp replied.This prompted “uproar” in the courtroom, reports Deadline.
Jennifer Keller, Spacey’s lawyer, immediately objected to Rapp’s statement.Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sustained the objection and told the jury to disregard it.A bench conference then took place between the judge and lawyers for several minutes.
However, at the end of it, Kaplan said his ruling stood.The case presented by Spacey’s lawyer is that Rapp misremembered the incident.
She also suggested during her opening statement that Rapp was frustrated and “bitter” at not landing better roles after coming out as gay.
