The Latest Breaking News from Anthony Rapp

A jury has begun deliberating the validity of civil claims that Kevin Spacey sexually abused a 14-year-old actor in the 1980s

NEW YORK — Actor Anthony Rapp’s lawyer asked a Manhattan jury Thursday not to believe Kevin Spacey’s Oscar-worthy performance on the witness stand — but to find him liable for preying on Rapp a teenage boy 36 years ago.

Photographers and videographers hovered outside in the walkway between two large old courthouses in lower Manhattan

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury heard the remaining evidence in actor Anthony Rapp’s civil sex abuse lawsuit against Kevin Spacey on Wednesday and will soon begin deliberating the case.

Kevin Spacey has finished testifying at a civil trial resulting from an actor's claims that the Oscar winner made a sexual pass at him when he was 14 in the 1980s

An emotional Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued for millions of dollars in damages, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14. Repeatedly, Spacey denied…

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Kevin Spacey takes the stand at trial

Kevin Spacey said in court on Monday that he regretted apologizing to actor Anthony Rapp over claims that the Oscar winner made an unwanted sexual advance in 1986 when Rapp was 14.

NEW YORK — Embattled actor Kevin Spacey took the witness stand Monday at his Manhattan trial, where he launched into his testimony by revealing his rocky relationship with a “neo-Nazi” father who verbally abused him because he suspected his son was gay.

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.