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Kevin Spaceyappeared at a Massachusetts courthouse on Monday to attend a hearing in his sexual assault case.
The disgraced actor — who stands accused of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar in 2016 — sported a gray suit and glasses. According to theAssociated Press, his appearance comes somewhat as a surprise as he was not required to attend the hearing and has kept his distance from the courthouse except for a brief hearing in January, which he also tried to avoid.
When he arrived around 10 a.m. ET, Spacey, 59, looked relaxed and was joking and laughing with one of his lawyers. He was wearing a light gray suit with a pale blue button-down shirt and light blue tie with diagonal white stripes. He was also wearing glasses. He did not speak to reporters when he entered the courthouse.
Alan Jackson, Spacey’s lawyer, went on the attack inside the courtroom Monday, accusing prosecutors of lying about being in possession of the defendant’s cell phone. He also claimed that the defendant’s mother, former WCVB news anchor Heather Unruh, deleted exculpatory information from her son’s phone before handing it over to prosecutors, telling investigations “that she had gone through the phone to remove anything related to what she described as [her son’s] ‘frat boy activities.’” He also claimed that the evidence given to police included selective screenshots of longer conversations that “specifically had information missing.”
He is now asking the judge to give his team access to the man’s phone. The Commonwealth has denied any wrongdoing.
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The same day he was charged, Spaceyreleased a bizarre videoon his social media accounts, in which he seemed to be channeling hisdeceasedHouse of Cardscharacter, Frank Underwood.
“Some believed everything and have just been waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all,” Spacey said in the video. “They’re just dying to have me declare that everything said is true and that I got what I deserved.”
“Wouldn’t that be easy if it was all so simple?” he continued. “Only you and I both know it’s never that simple, not in politics and not in life. … If I didn’t pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn’t do.”
Until Monday, he hadn’t been seen publicly since that video.
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The accuser said Spacey’s alleged touching went on for about three minutes and that he tried to move away and moved Spacey’s hands away, to no avail, according to the reports. He said that he fled when Spacey went to the bathroom.
They have continued to attack the accuser’s credibility. According to the AP, in court documents filed Friday, defense attorney Jackson accused the man and his mother ofdeleting text messagesthat support Spacey’s claims of innocence, claims he elaborated on in court Monday.
source: people.com
