Kevin Spacey to Face More Sexual Assault Claims in London Civil Court

Kevin Spacey to Face Multiple Civil Sexual Assault Claims in London Next Year

LONDON — Kevin Spacey is set to face new legal bat­tles in the Unit­ed King­dom, as three men have filed civ­il law­suits accus­ing the Oscar-win­ning actor of sex­u­al assault dur­ing his tenure as artis­tic direc­tor of London’s Old Vic The­atre. The pro­ceed­ings, detailed in court doc­u­ments and con­firmed by France 24, BBC News, and Vari­ety, mark anoth­er chap­ter in Spacey’s long-run­ning legal saga — three years after he was cleared of sim­i­lar crim­i­nal charges in the U.K.

New Civil Allegations

At a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing held at London’s High Court on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 26, 2025, Judge Christi­na Lam­bert pro­vi­sion­al­ly sched­uled the tri­al for Octo­ber 12, 2026. The court will lat­er decide whether the three law­suits will be heard togeth­er in a sin­gle tri­al or as sep­a­rate cas­es.
Pros­e­cu­tion lawyers are call­ing for a com­bined tri­al expect­ed to last eight to nine days, while Spacey’s legal team has argued for three short­er hear­ings of five to six days each.

Accord­ing to court fil­ings, all three claims “relate to alleged sex­u­al assaults by the defen­dant (Spacey) of younger men he came into con­tact with whilst work­ing at the Old Vic The­atre, two as young actors.” The alleged offences occurred between 2004 and 2015, dur­ing Spacey’s influ­en­tial tenure as the theatre’s artis­tic direc­tor.

Two of the claimants were involved in Spacey’s 2023 crim­i­nal tri­al, in which the actor was acquit­ted of all charges brought by four men. The third claimant, actor Ruari Can­non, was not part of that case but has waived his anonymi­ty and also filed a sep­a­rate suit against the Old Vic itself. Can­non alleges that Spacey groped him at a 2013 par­ty while he was star­ring in a play at the the­atre.

One of the anony­mous claimants pre­vi­ous­ly sued Spacey in 2022, though the case was paused pend­ing the out­come of his crim­i­nal tri­al. He alleges he suf­fered “psy­chi­atric dam­age and oth­er finan­cial loss” fol­low­ing an alleged assault in August 2008.
Anoth­er claimant asserts that Spacey repeat­ed­ly took his hand and placed it on his body while clothed. Details of the third man’s alle­ga­tions were not dis­closed in open court.

Spacey’s Response

Spacey, now 66, did not attend Wednesday’s hear­ing but has for­mal­ly denied the accu­sa­tions. He has filed defens­es for two of the three civ­il suits and is expect­ed to respond to the third in the com­ing weeks.
The House of Cards and Amer­i­can Beau­ty star “has always denied any wrong­do­ing,” accord­ing to state­ments pre­sent­ed to the court. His rep­re­sen­ta­tives have not yet pub­licly com­ment­ed on the lat­est devel­op­ments.

Fol­low­ing the hear­ing, Spacey’s spokesper­son reit­er­at­ed his pre­vi­ous stance, cit­ing his response to Chan­nel 4’s 2024 docuseries Spacey Unmasked:

“Each time I have been giv­en the time and a prop­er forum to defend myself, the alle­ga­tions have failed under scruti­ny and I have been exon­er­at­ed.”

Career and Legal History

Once one of Hollywood’s most respect­ed tal­ents, Spacey’s career unrav­eled after mul­ti­ple sex­u­al mis­con­duct alle­ga­tions emerged in 2017 dur­ing the ear­ly #MeToo move­ment. The two-time Acad­e­my Award win­ner — for The Usu­al Sus­pects (1996) and Amer­i­can Beau­ty (2000) — was removed from major projects and saw his rep­u­ta­tion col­lapse almost overnight.

In 2023, Spacey was acquit­ted in a Lon­don crim­i­nal tri­al involv­ing four men who accused him of sex­u­al assault. The jury found him not guilty on all counts.
Across the Atlantic, in 2022, a New York court also dis­missed a $40 mil­lion civ­il law­suit brought by actor Antho­ny Rapp, find­ing Spacey not liable.

The Road Ahead

Despite his pre­vi­ous legal vic­to­ries, the upcom­ing Lon­don civ­il cas­es will once again bring Spacey’s past into pub­lic view. Court doc­u­ments show that the alleged vic­tims claim to have suf­fered sig­nif­i­cant emo­tion­al, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and finan­cial harm from their encoun­ters with the actor.

Judge Lambert’s deci­sion sets the stage for what could be a piv­otal legal show­down in 2026 — one that may final­ly deter­mine whether Spacey can move beyond the shad­ow of these long-run­ning alle­ga­tions.

For now, the star who once stood at the peak of Hol­ly­wood acclaim remains caught in a years-long cycle of accu­sa­tion, defense, and court­room reck­on­ing.