Kevin Spacey to face civil sex assault trial

Kevin Spacey will face civil sexual assault allegations in court next year.

The House of Cards actor was acquitted in London in 2023 of seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

She is being sued by three men who claim he assaulted them between 2000 and 2013, and at Wednesday’s hearing, the judge set the tentative trial date for Oct. 12, 2026.

The allegations were due to be heard in three successive hearings at London’s High Court, but the accusers’ lawyer, Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel, requested they be heard in a single trial to avoid the men and Spacey having to give multiple statements.

Spacey, 66, has denied all allegations of misconduct. He has officially denied two of the allegations and has not yet entered a court defense for the third.

Both men accused of allegations heard in the criminal case filed a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court.

One man, known only as LNP, claimed Spacey “deliberately assaulted” him about 12 times between 2000 and 2005, while another, identified as GHI, claimed he had “suffered psychiatric damage and financial loss” as a result of the alleged assault after meeting the Oscar-winning actor at a workshop at London’s Old Vic theater in 2008.

The third man, Ruari Cannon, waived his right to anonymity and claimed that Spacey, who was artistic director of the Old Vic from 2004 to 2013, groped him at a party following a press night for the theater’s 2013 production of Sweet Bird of Youth.

Cannon previously appeared in the 2024 documentary Spacey Unmasked.

The American Beauty star emphasized that the claim was “ridiculous and never happened.”

Following the documentary’s release, Spacey wrote of

He previously admitted he was “too handsy” but insisted he had never “groped” anyone.