NANTUCKET (MA)
The Associated Press
January 7, 2019
By Alanna Durkin Richer
Kevin Spacey arrived at a courthouse on a resort island Monday to answer accusations that he groped a young man in a bar there in 2016.
The two-time Oscar winner has said he will plead not guilty in Nantucket District Court to felony indecent assault and battery.
The hearing comes more than a year after a former Boston TV anchor accused the former “House of Cards” star of sexually assaulting her son, then 18, in the crowded bar at the Club Car, where the teen worked as a busboy.
Spacey’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, has sought to poke holes in the case, noting that the teenager didn’t immediately report the allegations. If convicted, Spacey faces as many as five years in prison.
The civil attorney for the accuser said in a statement ahead of the hearing that his client is “leading by example.”
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