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The allegations have brought about a flood of damage control as multiple Hollywood entities seek to distance themselves from the actor. On November 16, 2017, London’s Old Vic Theatre, where Spacey served as artistic director from 2004 to 2015, announced that a hotline it set up to facilitate its investigation into Spacey had received 20 allegations of “a range of inappropriate behavior,” all concerning young men over the age of 18. Since October 2017, when BuzzFeed published allegations made by actor Anthony Rapp that Spacey made a sexual advance toward Rapp when Rapp was 14, more than 30 people have come forward with their own allegations against Spacey, with accounts ranging from harassment to attempted rape. "I don't know how anyone gets over that.Kevin Spacey released a bizarre video evoking Frank Underwood, apparently to defend himself "He's a talented guy but I can't see how people can go and watch him without seeing Kevin Spacey 'the sexual-abuse guy,'" Holtzman told the publication. Years later, Holtzman would go into marketing. He said he never confronted Spacey and avoided him afterward. Spacey, he told the paper, was a 22-year-old up-and-coming actor with a part in Henry IV Part 1 at the time, according to USA Today. Holtzman said he was 27 years old at the time and working his first job out of college. When I was finally able to push him off and scream, he theatrically stepped back, incredibly angry, grabbed his coat and bag, stormed out and slammed the door." "The aggression was certainly more than a grope. "Within minutes, wordlessly, he was up and all over me," Holtzman said.

The encounter occurred in Holtzman's office, he said, describing an incident in which Spacey reportedly didn't say a word to him before beginning to grope him.

Spacey absolutely denies the allegations.”Īndy Holtzman told USA Today Spacey groped him in the summer of 1981, when Holtzman was running a film program at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater. When asked to comment on Dreyfuss’s story, Bryan Freedman, a lawyer representing Spacey, said to BuzzFeed News, “Let me be clear, Mr. … What I do remember is that, other than being a shy kid who obviously admired Kevin Spacey a lot, I never once gave him a signal that I would want to be with him in that way." I was protecting myself, because I thought one day I’d want to work with this man. I was protecting Kevin, who my dad surely would have tried to punch.

"I thought I was protecting everyone," he said. "My mind went blank." Rather than alert his father, Dreyfuss said he indicated to Spacey to stop by shaking his head, but Spacey's hand remained on his genitals. "Over the course of about 20 seconds, centimeter by centimeter, Kevin crawled his hand from my thigh over toward my crotch," Dreyfuss said. "My dad saw none of this and none of what would follow, because he was deeply focused on his script," he said. He said that his initial interactions with Spacey were kind and friendly, but once he and his father went to Spacey's apartment, Spacey began placing his hand on his thigh.ĭreyfuss said that he moved twice to try to keep Spacey from touching him, but each time, Spacey followed him and would not relent. Richard Dreyfuss was in London rehearsing the play Complicit, which Spacey was directing for the Old Vic Theatre, and Harry Dreyfuss, then a high school senior, was visiting his father over winter break. 4, Dreyfuss, a writer and actor, and son of the Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, wrote a first-person account for BuzzFeed News in which he said Spacey groped him in 2008 when he was 18, and in front of his father.