Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty to seven more counts of assault at a video hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday.
The brief hearing focused on additional charges filed against Spacey in November, including three alleged felonies of indecent assault, three of assault and one of causing sexual activity without a person’s consent. They all relate to a male complainant and cover the period from 2001 to 2004.
The new charges came just weeks after a New York jury found Spacey not liable in a civil sexual misconduct lawsuit brought by actor Anthony Rapp, who had accused the actor of molesting him when he was 14 and they both appeared in Broadway plays in the 1980s.
British judge Mark Wall on Friday agreed to add the seven-count charge to five previous UK counts, including four counts of sexual assault and one of inducing sexual activity without consent. Two-time Oscar winner Spacey had pleaded not guilty to them last July.
At the time, Wall set a June 6, 2023 date for the trial, which will either take place at London’s Southwark Crown Court or the Old Bailey, giving it a time frame of three to four weeks. Spacey must remain on unconditional bail until then so he can move freely in and out of the UK
