A New York jury on Thursday found actor
Kevin Spacey
not liable for injuries against fellow actor
Anthony Rapp
, who accused him of trying to seduce and touch him with sexual intent in 1986, when he was a minor.
Rapp, who is now 50 years old, was seeking millionaire compensation for damages in the civil trial against Spacey, 63, a process that began two weeks ago and in which Judge Lewis Kaplan decided to dismiss one
charge of assault
and another of
intentional
emotional damage.
, so only one injury was settled.
According to CNN, the jury deliberated just over an hour after the closing arguments for the prosecution and defense, and concluded that Rapp did not offer sufficient evidence that Spacey had "touched a
sexual or intimate part
", so the magistrate formally ordered that the case will be closed
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