Kevin Spacey recently avoided civil trials in London related to claims he’d sexually assaulted three men by settling with them out of court, the BBC reports. The cases, which cover alleged incidents that occurred between 2000 and 2013, had been scheduled to be tried in the city’s High Court in the fall. Those proceedings are now frozen. Spacey had denied wrongdoing.
One accuser, identified as “LNP,” claimed Spacey had “deliberately assaulted” him on roughly a dozen occasions between 2000 and 2005. Another, “GHI,” alleged he’d “suffered psychiatric damage and other financial loss” after Spacey allegedly assaulted him in 2008 after meeting the actor at a workshop at the Old Vic theater, where Spacey served as artistic director between 2004 and 2013. A third accuser, Ruari Cannon, who did not wish to be anonymous, claimed Spacey had groped him at a party after Cannon had acted in the Old Vic’s production of Sweet Bird of Youth in 2013.
Details of the settlements have not been disclosed. Spacey’s lawyer did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
The BBC reports that Cannon discussed his allegation, which Spacey denied and called “utter nonsense,” on a British documentary, Spacey Unmasked, in 2024. Cannon reached a separate settlement with the Old Vic, his lawyer said at a hearing this month.
Lawyers for the accusers claimed that they hoped to present evidence from seven witnesses with similar allegations at trial.
Spacey was acquitted of criminal sexual-assault charges in the U.K. in 2023, when a jury found him not guilty. “I am humbled by the outcome,” Spacey commented at the time.
Earlier this month, Spacey appeared on the witness stand at a separate civil trial, where he told the court he was diagnosed with “sexual compulsive behavior” in 2017 after entering an inpatient treatment program. Spacey was not on trial himself; the proceeding concerns a dispute between the producers of House of Cards, the Netflix series Spacey once starred in, and its insurance company related to a nine-figure claim associated with a halt in production on the show in 2017.
