Kevin Spacey allegedly s*xually assaulted a stranger at his Cotswolds home after drink-driving a group of men there for a “party”, a court heard yesterday.
The actor, 63, is said to have met the six men a few hours earlier in a pub before taking them back to his house, where he had up to 30 pre-rolled cannabis joints, saying, “Help yourselves”.
Despite spending several hours drinking Jack Daniel’s and cokes, Spacey allegedly drove the group back to his property on a private estate where he is accused of groping a 23-year-old man.
The alleged victim said Spacey went for a hug but grabbed his crotch and ki**ed him on the neck, telling him: “Be cool”.
Shocked, the man fled the property in tears to the “panic” of the Hollywood star, he said. The witness told Southwark Crown Court that Spacey had started touching him on the back and knee in the pub.
He said: “It was not something we overthought about. Just moved to the side or moved his hands away.”
When he arrived at Spacey’s property, the alleged victim said he saw “20-to-30” joints lying around. He asked to borrow a jacket to smoke outside on the ball cony. He said: “I opened two or three doors. The last door I opened, his little dog shot out, so I… got the dog. I turned around and closed the door behind me.
“Kevin was five yards away from me. I said, ‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to let your dog out’.
“He came towards me in a huggy motion and said, ‘Don’t worry about it. It’s cool, it’s cool’. Then we did an awkward man-hug, a pat on the back type of thing, and it was then that he kissed down my neck twice and grabbed my crotch and said the words, ‘Be cool, be cool’ twice.
“I put my arm out, pushed him against a wall, and said, ‘Sorry, I don’t bat for that team’. He panicked, entered a room, and closed the door behind him.”
The “teary” witness left and called his father at 3am. “It was April Fools’ Day; everyone would think it’s just a joke,” he told police. The alleged victim said the attack prevented him from watching Spacey’s films.
Best known for starring in American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, and LA Confidential, Spacey is accused of carrying out a dozen s*x attacks on four younger men between 2001 and 2013.
He denies three counts of indecent assault, seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in s*xual activity without consent, and one allegation of causing a person to engage in penetrative s*xual activity without consent. The trial continues.
