Kevin Spacey will “voluntarily” go to the sexual assault trial in which he is charged

Kevin Spacey assures him: British justice will not need to make an extradition request to the United States in order to judge him. The American actor is indeed accused by three men, in the United Kingdom, of sexual assault, and the Crown Prosecution brought five charges against him. For him to be officially charged, the star of LA Confidential must be on British territory.

“I greatly appreciate the press release [de la Crown Prosecution] in which the media and the public are carefully reminded that I have the right to a fair trial and that I am innocent until proven otherwise. Although I am disappointed with their decision to prosecute, I will voluntarily appear in the UK as soon as possible to defend myself against these charges, confident that this will prove my innocence,” the star said. House of Cards in a statement sent to Good Morning America.

Three men

The charges against the 62-year-old comedian are serious. Three men, now in their thirties and forties, accuse him of facts that they place between 2005 and 2013.

The first filed a complaint for two sexual assaults in March 2005 in London; the second for a sexual assault which allegedly occurred in April 2013 in Gloucestershire. Finally, the third man accuses him of assault and having brought him “to engage in sexual activity with penetration without his consent” in 2008 in London.

Apart from his acting career, Kevin Spacey was artistic director of the Old Vic theater in London between 2004 and 2015. The first accusations of harassment and sexual assault date back to 2017, when Anthony Rapp declared that at the age 14 years old, he had to face the sexual advances of the actor, who was 26 years old at the time.