Unexpected Developments in the Kevin Spacey Saga

The past five years have been turbulent ones for Kevin Spacey, but things have taken an unexpected positive turn for the Oscar-winning actor. Today, a jury found Spacey not liable for the 1986 molestation alleged by actor Anthony Rapp (when Rapp was 14 years old). There were plenty of holes in Rapp’s account of the events, which likely led to the jury's quick verdict.

Spacey had also been charged in 2017 for (allegedly) sexually assaulting the teenage son of former Boston WCVB-TV news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016. Then the charges against the actor were dropped after it came to light that Spacey’s accuser had altered phone records/text messages. When the accuser took the fifth in court, that sealed the deal and the case was dismissed.

That hasn’t stopped investigators from London to Los Angeles from continuing to investigate the actor over other allegations of sexual assault. Directors Paul Schrader and Bernardo Bertolucci have defended Spacey over these latest rounds of accusations.

Most of these charges stem from Spacey’s time as the artistic director at London's The Old Vic theater between 2004 and 2015. The actor did apologize for any "inappropriate drunken behavior,” but says he can’t remember any incidents of wrongdoing during that time.

The last we heard of Spacey on this side of the pond, the actor had been kicked off his own Netflix show, “House Of Cards,“ and had his already-shot role in Ridley Scott’s “All The Money In The World” completely erased and re-done by Christopher Plummer.

Last year, the New York Post reported that Spacey was already plotting his Hollywood comeback, stating that was still getting acting offers from Europe and Russia.” Spacey’s not out of the woods by a long shot-- he has yet another trial, stemming from another accuser, coming up next summer in the UK.