By Emily Caulkett-
Kevin Spacey’s accuser says he was sexually assaulted the Hollywood actor who held his crotch and told him to ”be cool”
Spacey’s accuser recounted an occasion he apologised to Spacey for his dog momentarily escaping, stating that: “At which point he came towards me in a huggy motion and said ‘don’t worry about it, it is cool, it is cool.’
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“We did an awkward man hug as I call it – he hugged me, I did a sort of pat on the back type of thing.
“At that point he kissed my neck twice and grabbed my crotch. He said the words ‘be cool, be cool’ twice.
“I put my arm between us and pushed him against a wall.
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“I said ‘I am sorry man, I don’t bat for that team’.”
The witness said that after he rejected Spacey, the actor had an “immediate panicked look on his face” before he left the room.
The man said the actor’s “eyes opened quite wide” before he “immediately pushed past me” and into another room without saying anything.
Spacey, who is on trial in the UK, has pleaded not guilty to 12 sexual offences, including indecent assault, against four men between 2001 and 2013.
The alleged victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, claims that the Oscar-winning star began sexually assaulting him more than two decades ago.
Despite him making clear to Spacey that his advances were unwanted, the actor persisted, a jury at Southwark Crown Court in south London heard.
Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to 12 sexual offences, including indecent assault, against four men between 2001 and 2013.
The alleged victim described Spacey, the former artistic director of London’s Old Vic theatre, as a “slippery, snaky, difficult person”.
The prosecution has described Spacey, who won Oscars for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, as a “sexual bully”, whose preferred method of assault was grabbing other men in the crotch.
His first alleged victim said in a videotaped police interview played to the jury that the actor grabbed him on several occasions, and was told to stop.
He told officers that Spacey once grabbed him painfully in a car. He pushed back and told the star: “Don’t do that again or I will knock you out.”
The actor allegedly replied: “That’s such a turn-on to me, you’re such a man.”
The witness said Spacey’s unwanted sexual overtures made him uncomfortable, ashamed and disgusted, so much so that he could not watch any drama with the actor in it.
“I can’t stand watching the man. It makes me feel sick,” he told police, describing Spacey as a “predator” who was “aggressive”.
“He was obviously very messed up with his sexuality,” he added.
Under cross-examination by Spacey’s lawyer Patrick Gibbs, the alleged victim denied “100, one million percent” that he had any feelings for the actor, or that what happened led him to question his own sexuality.
He reported the claims to the police after publicity about other allegations against Spacey, he said.
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