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Based solely on allegations, two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey was blacklisted by all of Hollywood for six years before being cleared of every allegation hurled against him.
In 2017, after actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexual misconduct, Netflix fired the House of Cards star. The rest of the industry then created a blacklist so total, Spacey’s role as J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World, which was completed and in the can, was recast with Christopher Plummer and re-shot.
Today, after a month of courtroom drama, a London jury cleared Spacey of the last remaining allegations against him. Spacey faced seven counts of sexual assault from four men during his time as the artistic director of London’s Old Vic theater. He was found not guilty on all seven counts.
Last year, a New York jury cleared Spacey after Rapp filed a $40 million lawsuit over the sexual misconduct he alleged happened in 1986. A jury heard all the evidence and refused to award Rapp a dime. The jury found that “Spacey did not touch a sexual or intimate part of Rapp, meaning it could not find him liable under the Child Victims Act.”
In 2019, a sexual assault charge in Massachusetts against Spacey was dropped entirely after the case imploded over tampered evidence:
[O]ver the course of months of pre-trial hearings, it emerged that the mother of Spacey’s accuser had deleted potentially exculpatory data from her son’s cell phone before turning it over to police, and that the lead investigator in the case did not file a report stating the mother’s voluntary admission until just last month — in June, 2019 — more than three years after the alleged encounter.
