UK actor Kevin Spacey charged with sexual assault of three men

American actor Kevin Spacey.

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American actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four sexual assaults against three men, British justice announced on Thursday May 26.

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Three years after

against him in his country, the American actor Kevin Spacey has been charged in the United Kingdom with four sexual assaults on men, during a period when he was artistic director of a London theater.

Thursday's announcement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the British prosecutor's office, gives a new echo to the accusations that have emerged since the Weinstein scandal, which put

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Facts dating back to 2005

The charges cover a period from March 2005 to April 2013. Two charges relate to acts of sexual assault in March 2005 in London on the same complainant.

Another sexual assault concerns a second complainant in August 2008, who also accuses him of having forced him into penetrative sexual activity without his consent.

Finally, Kevin Spacey is charged with a fourth sexual assault on a third complainant in April 2013 in Gloucestershire (south-west England).

The London police had opened an investigation after receiving complaints of sexual assault against the actor, some of which were allegedly committed in the Lambeth district of London, where the Old Vic theater is located, of which he was artistic director between 2004 and 2015.

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