Kevin Spacey made a first appearance before a court in Massachusetts yesterday, where his lawyers denied that the actor had sexually assaulted an 18-year-old man in the summer of 2016. The actor, who has been charged with indecent assault and battery, nodded as a judge ordered that he stay away from the alleged victim and his family before his lawyers entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Mr Spacey’s career was at its zenith when, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the Boston television journalist Heather Unruh claimed that Mr Spacey had assaulted her son in a bar on the island of Nantucket. “The victim, my son, was a star-struck, straight 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor…

Source: The Times January 07, 2019 17:03 UTC