American actor Kevin Spacey, who is already being prosecuted in Great Britain for sexually assaulting three men, will have to face new charges for the same reason, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Wednesday, AFP reported.

“CPS has authorized additional criminal charges against 63-year-old Kevin Spacey for multiple sexual assaults on a man between 2001 and 2004,” the agency, which is responsible for the most sensitive and complex investigations in the United States, said in a statement. Britain.

The actor is also accused of forcing the person concerned “to engage in sexual intercourse without consent”, the CPS added, citing elements of an ongoing police investigation.

The two-time Oscar-winning star (for American Beauty and The Usual Suspects) is already being prosecuted in the UK for four sexual assaults on three men between March 2005 and April 2013, when he was director of a London theater . .

How did sexual assault allegations affect Kevin Spacey’s career?

He pleaded not guilty to the charges at a preliminary hearing in July. The trial is expected to take place in June 2023.

The allegations against him were formulated in the midst of the #MeToo movement and the “Weinstein scandal”, after the American film producer, who faced numerous allegations of sexual harassment and violence that were made public in the fall of 2017.

This had serious consequences for Spacey’s career: Netflix removed the actor from the rental of the successful series “House of Cards”, in which he played the main character.

Kevin Spacey was found not guilty in the United States

Last October, a civil court in New York found Kevin Spacey not guilty of sexual assault. Actor Anthony Rapp said that Spacey groped him 36 years ago at a party in Manhattan.

Also in the United States, the actor was accused of indecent assault and sexual violence against an 18-year-old boy in a bar in Massachusetts, on the east coast. The charges were dropped in July 2019. (Source Agerpres)