{"id":533034,"date":"2026-03-19T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:48:07","slug":"kevin-spacey-settles-with-sexual-assault-accusers-before-london-trial-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533034\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey Settles With Sexual Assault Accusers Before London Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kevin-spacey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-spacey_1\" data-tag=\"kevin-spacey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Spacey<\/a> has settled out of court with three men who sued the actor over sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ygyypy7pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News reported<\/a> on Thursday that the upcoming civil trial, due to take place at the High Court in London in October this year, has now been frozen following the settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe claims had come from three separate men, who allege the\u00a0House of Cards\u00a0star assaulted them between 2000 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Oscar-winning actor, who from 2004 to 2013 was the artistic director of the Old Vic, has continuously rejected the claims made against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne of the men alleged Spacey \u201cdeliberately assaulted\u201d him on 12 occasions between 2000 and 2005, while another says he \u201csuffered psychiatric damage and financial loss\u201d after an assault in 2008. This man originally sued Spacey in 2022, but his case was halted when criminal charges were brought against the Hollywood actor. A separate London trial in July 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/kevin-spacey-uk-trial-verdict-not-guilty-1235543727\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saw the actor\u00a0acquitted of nine sexual offense<\/a> charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe accuser, Ruari Cannon, waived his right to anonymity and was one of 10 participants in the 2024 Channel 4 doc\u00a0Spacey Unmasked. Cannon starred in a production of\u00a0Sweet Bird of Youth\u00a0at the Old Vic in 2013 and claims Spacey groped him at a party after the play\u2019s press night. Like a \u201cshark,\u201d Spacey then \u201cmoved into press mode\u201d for the cameras,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/kevin-spacey-unmasked-sexual-assault-doc-channel-4-1235889449\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannon said in the program<\/a>. (Spacey said the allegation was \u201cridiculous and it never happened.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpacey wrote on X after the documentary was released: \u201cEach time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated.\u201d He has previously confessed to \u201cbeing too handsy\u201d but maintains he has never \u201cgroped\u201d anyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpacey\u2019s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0about the settlement on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey has settled out of court with three men who sued the actor over sexual assault claims.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2091,157236,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-533034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-kevin-spacey","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}