Kevin Spacey asks judge to axe Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit
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Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit.
He alleged in his lawsuit that he went to a party in 1986 at Spacey’s Manhattan home, where a 26-year-old Spacey, without Rapp’s consent, "engaged in a sexual advance" by grabbing Rapp’s buttocks and lifting him onto a bed and laying on his body. Rapp claimed he "was forced to extricate himself" before leaving the party.
Spacey's lawyers argued the alleged encounter cannot qualify as sexual abuse under New York's laws because the only alleged contact with an "intimate" part of the body by Spacey was when his hand grazed the 14-year-old Rapp's buttocks when the older actor picked him up. The lawyers said Rapp "wriggled out" with no resistance during an encounter of less than 30 seconds.