'I didn't have a power wand that I waved in front of people's faces whenever I wanted someone to go to bed with me,' he said. Spacey said he had only used his position to restore the Old Vic Theatre, where he served as artistic director for a decade, to its former glory.

The alleged victims all said they only came forward after allegations against Spacey surfaced in the United States in 2017 as the #MeToo movement gained momentum.Īgnew said Spacey had taken advantage of his powerful status as 'essentially the golden boy of the London theatre scene' and knew that his victims weren't likely to speak up against him. She pressed him on each of the allegations, asserting that the men who testified against him had been telling the truth and Spacey insisting they lied. Spacey rarely looked at Agnew as the two sparred, directing his gaze at the jury in Southwark Crown Court but without his glasses on. He could face a prison term if convicted. The 63-year-old American, who is identified in court by his full name, Kevin Spacey Fowler, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges that include sexual and indecent assault counts and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. Spacey was irritable at moments and laughed off other questions in his final chance to win over jurors in a case that could affect whether he's able to make a comeback after sexual misconduct accusations derailed his once-stellar career. He accepted the claims of a fourth man, saying he had made a 'clumsy pass' during a night of heavy drinking, but he took exception to the 'crotch-grabbing' characterisation.

He dismissed one man's fondling claims as 'pure fantasy' and said he shared consensual encounters with two others who later regretted it. The acts allegedly escalated from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling to one instance of performing oral sex act on an unconscious man. The two-time Oscar winner stuck to his testimony from a day earlier in which he insisted he never sexually assaulted three of the four accusers who described disturbing encounters between 20. Spacey's accuser denies actor's defence claim, says 'it was horrific'

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