Kevin Spacey told Bill Maher that he is reemerging from Hollywood jail after his career was derailed by dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment.
“I feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,” Spacey said on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
The Oscar-winning star of “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects” noted that he had won “in every court we’ve gone into with a jury.”
“There are certain cases where part of something is true, but it’s been rethought, it’s been redesigned, or it’s been entirely made up, certainly in the case of Anthony Rapp, which is a case that we won in federal court in New York,” Spacey said.
Rapp’s allegations that Spacey assaulted him in his New York apartment while Rapp was a teenager appeared in a 2017 Buzzfeed article and triggered the chain of allegations that led to Spacey’s career implosion. Rapp later filed a $40 million civil lawsuit for sexual assault and battery, but a New York jury found Spacey not liable on all counts.
