The first witness in the civil trial in which Kevin Spacey Accused of having a sexual advance with a 14-year-old boy in the mid-1980s, he testified Friday that Spacey had had a similar incident with him years earlier.
Andrew Holtzman was sued for testifying by attorneys for actor Anthony Rapp, who claims $ 40 million in compensation for psychological harm who, according to him, suffered following a meeting with Spacey after a party in 1986.
Rapp, 50, began giving his testimony on Friday. But the jury was sent to lunch after several minutes of Rapp providing biographical information about himself.
What the witness said
Holtzman, now 68, testified that he was working in his office at the New York Shakespeare Festival theater company in the summer of 1981, when Spacey walked in and sat down at an empty desk.
Holtzman said Spacey didn’t say anything when she walked into the office wearing a windbreaker, “skinny” blue jeans and a leather bag, but she remembered meeting him because she saw her photograph on the show’s schedule. Henry IVin which Spacey was performing at the time.
At the end of the phone call, Holtzman stood up and Spacey – who was excited – walked over to him, grabbed him by the groin and put him on the desk, Holtzman said.
“What are you doing? Let me go!” He recalled telling Spacey.
“I could feel his erection on my body,” Holtzman said.
After a few more minutes, Spacey let him go, grabbed his jacket and bag, and hurried out of the office. “I was shocked,” Holtzman said.
When questioned by a 63-year-old Spacey attorney, Holtzman was shown six pages of a Henry IV and Holtzman said he didn’t see Spacey’s photograph in the cast.
It all started in 2017
Rapp’s allegations, which first came to light in 2017, were among the first in a series of allegations that have dampened Spacey’s career, as he faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
At the time, Spacey was starring in Netflix’s political thriller House of cards. He is also known for his role in the film American beauty 1999, which earned him an Oscar.
Rapp, meanwhile, as a teenager starred in films such as Babysitting adventures. She subsequently joined the original cast of Rent on Broadway and now it’s a fixture Discovery of Star Trek on TV.
During their opening statements Thursday, Rapp’s attorneys told a federal judge in Manhattan that they will show that Spacey picked up Rapp, laid him on a bed in his apartment, and lay down on him before Rapp could break free and escape from the apartment. . Spacey was 26 at the time.
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Source: Clarin
