Kevin Spacey to receive award in Italy amid sex assault legal battles | 24CA News

Actor Kevin Spacey was within the northern Italian metropolis of Turin on Monday to obtain a lifetime achievement award, train a grasp class and introduce a screening of his 1999 movie American Beauty.

The sold-out occasions had been billed as Spacey’s first talking engagements since #MeToo-era allegations derailed his hovering profession. The two-time Academy Award winner misplaced his starring position on the Netflix sequence House of Cards and noticed different alternatives dry up.

Spacey filmed his most up-to-date film, director Franco Nero’s The Man Who Drew God, in Turin. He is about to obtain an award for contributing to the expansion of cinema and to be interviewed about his profession on the metropolis’s National Museum of Cinema.

Previous winners of the Stella della Mole Award embrace actors Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci, and director Dario Argento.

Scheduled for intercourse assault trial

Spacey is scheduled to go on trial in London in June on a dozen prices alleging he sexually assaulted 4 males between 2001 and 2013, together with when he was the creative director on the metropolis’s Old Vic theatre. He has pleaded not responsible.

In October, a federal jury in a New York civil case discovered that Spacey, 63, didn’t sexually abuse actor Anthony Rapp when each had been comparatively unknown Broadway actors in 1986 and Rapp was 14 years outdated. The jurors deliberated a bit greater than an hour earlier than deciding that Rapp, now 50, hadn’t confirmed his allegations.

Spacey beforehand confronted allegations in Massachusetts that he groped a person at a bar. Prosecutors later dropped the costs.

A decide in Los Angeles in August accredited an arbitrator’s resolution to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million US to the makers of House of Cards for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.