Actor Anthony Rapp confronted Kevin Spacey in a Manhattan federal courtroom Friday, testifying the embattled Hollywood star “pinned” him on his mattress in a “horrifying” encounter when he was simply 14 years previous.
Beneath direct examination by his lawyer Peter Saghir, Rapp repeated claims in his civil swimsuit, telling jurors Spacey drunkenly approached him in a bed room after a celebration in his Higher East Aspect condo in 1986.
With out saying a phrase, Spacey allegedly scooped him out of bed, carrying him like a groom would a bride, laid him on the mattress and pressed the total weight of his physique on high of him, Rapp recounted.
“His groin was urgent into the facet of my hip,” Rapp stated, as Spacey stared at him within the courtroom.
“I used to be pinned beneath him. I felt like a deer in headlights,” he stated. “I didn’t ask for him to do this. I didn’t need him to do this.”
On the stand, Rapp gestured to point out jurors how Spacey allegedly wrapped his arms round his torso and up over his shoulders whereas urgent his full physique weight onto him.
Rapp — who was about 5-foot-5 and weighed round 100 kilos — stated he was in a position to wriggle out from beneath Spacey and went into a rest room earlier than dashing out of the condo.
“I don’t know what I did to ask him to climb on high of my and press his groin into me,” he stated.
Saghir requested Rapp how he would reply to critics who might argue the encounter was not overtly traumatizing — and he replied he had “no need to have any sort of experiences like that.”
“I’m lucky that 14 12 months previous boy had the wherewithal to get away,” he stated, including it was “extremely horrifying and really alarming.”
Rapp’s testimony will resume Tuesday, and Spacey’s lawyer stated they intend to cross look at him for at the very least three hours.
Previous to Rapp’s testimony, one other Spacey accuser testified the “American Magnificence” star cornered him in a theater workplace in 1981 and lifted him up by the “crouch” whereas grinding his erection on him in an undesirable sexual advance.
Andrew Holtzman, a former public relations skilled, advised jurors at Spacey’s civil trial the actor approached him in an workplace on the Public Theater in Greenwich Village, the place he labored on the time.
Holtzman was ending a cellphone name at his desk when Spacey walked in, sporting a skinny windbreaker and “very tight blue denims,” he testified. Via the denims, he observed Spacey’s “very clear, giant erection.”
When he hung up the cellphone, Spacey walked over to him with out saying a phrase and touched his groin, Holtzman stated.
“He type’ve lifted me up by my crouch,” Holtzman stated, including that he awkwardly fell backward on his desk and Spacey was “on high of me.”
Spacey, who was appearing in a manufacturing of Shakespeare’s Henry IV on the time, then grinded his erection “on my physique,” Holtzman stated.
“What are you doing? Get off of me,” Holtzman stated he screamed throughout the encounter – and an enraged Spacey stormed out of the workplace, slamming the door.
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