Sexual Assault Charges Dropped Against Kevin Spacey Following a July 14 meeting between<br />the accuser, his parents and prosecutors,<br />the charges against Kevin Spacey have<br />been dropped by prosecutors. In a statement, District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said<br />the accuser chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment on<br />July 8, which ultimately halted the case’s progression. Michael O’Keefe,<br />via statement Spacey was first accused of sexual assault in 2017<br />by a 18-year-old boy who alleged that the actor groped<br />him in 2016 while at a bar in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In January 2019, Spacey was formally<br />charged with indecent assault and<br />battery stemming from the accusation. The alleged victim reportedly took videos of the assault,<br />but during the pre-trial hearings it was discovered<br />that key information on the phone had been deleted. It was also revealed that the accuser’s<br />phone had apparently been lost in the<br />process of forensic examination. The accuser then voluntarily chose to<br />dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning<br />he cannot refile the case at a later date.
