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(AP) - British police are investigating six claims of sexual assault or assault by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey...
Police in Britain don't name suspects until they are charged. Asked about Spacey, the force did not identify him by name but said Wednesday that detectives had received a total of five allegations of sexual assault and one of assault against a man. Five of the alleged offenses took place in London between 1996 and 2008, and the sixth in the western English city of Gloucester in 2013.
London's Old Vic theater, where Spacey was artistic director for 11 years until 2015, launched an investigation...(I)n November...it had received 20 allegations of inappropriate behavior by Spacey, and had encouraged 14 of the complainants to go to the police.
In the wake of the allegations, he was fired from political drama House of Cards and erased from Ridley Scott feature All the Money in the World. The film Billionaire Boys Club, a financial drama Spacey shot in 2015, is due for release this summer.
Police in Britain don't name suspects until they are charged. Asked about Spacey, the force did not identify him by name but said Wednesday that detectives had received a total of five allegations of sexual assault and one of assault against a man. Five of the alleged offenses took place in London between 1996 and 2008, and the sixth in the western English city of Gloucester in 2013.
London's Old Vic theater, where Spacey was artistic director for 11 years until 2015, launched an investigation...(I)n November...it had received 20 allegations of inappropriate behavior by Spacey, and had encouraged 14 of the complainants to go to the police.
In the wake of the allegations, he was fired from political drama House of Cards and erased from Ridley Scott feature All the Money in the World. The film Billionaire Boys Club, a financial drama Spacey shot in 2015, is due for release this summer.
Due for release this summer? Just when they thought it was safe for Spacey to get back in the water? Not anymore, it isn't!
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