British police charge Kevin Spacey over alleged sex crimes

British police said on Monday they had charged Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey with landmark sexual offense allegations, and the actor is set to appear in court on Thursday.

Prosecutors last month authorized charges against Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men and another count of causing a person to engage in nonconsensual penetrative sexual activity.

Police said the suspected attacks had taken place between March 2005 and April 2013, four in the capital London and one in Gloucestershire.

They involve a man who is now in his 40s and two men who are now in their 30s.

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“He is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates Court at 10am (0900 GMT) on Thursday 16 June,” the London Metropolitan Police said, confirming that Spacey had been charged with the five charges authorized by the Public Prosecution Service. Corona (CPS) after his arrest.

Spacey, who won Academy Awards for the usual suspects Y American Beauty in the 1990s, he has said he is prepared to defend himself in Britain and is confident that any trial will prove his innocence.

Once one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Spacey has largely disappeared from the public eye since he was accused of sexual misconduct five years ago.

In November 2017, London’s Old Vic theater said it had received 20 separate complaints of inappropriate conduct by Spacey from 20 men who came into contact with him at, or in connection with, the theater between 1995 and 2013.

They took him off the TV show. house of cards and removed from the movie all the money in the world after allegations of sexual misconduct came to light.