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"A sex assault case was presented yesterday to
our office by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
involving Kevin Spacey. It remains under review," Los Angeles
District Attorney spokesman Greg Risling said in an emailed
statement.
Risling declined to give any details on the latest case.
Representatives for the actor did not immediately return
requests for comment on Wednesday.
The District Attorney's office said in April that it was
reviewing a case involving Spacey dating from 1992, involving an
adult male. Spacey last October publicly acknowledged for the
first time that he was gay.
More than 30 men have said they were victims of unwanted sexual
advances by Spacey, who became embroiled in controversy last
year when actor Anthony Rapp accused him of trying to seduce him
in 1986 when Rapp was 14. In October, Spacey apologized for any
inappropriate conduct with Rapp but has not commented since.
The fallout resulted in Spacey, who won a best actor Oscar in
2000 for "American Beauty," being dropped from the final season
of the Netflix series "House of Cards" and erased from the 2017
movie "All the Money in the World."
Netflix in January reported a $39 million write-off on
Spacey-related projects.
London's Old Vic theater, where Spacey served as artistic
director for 12 years, said last year that it received 20
accusations of inappropriate conduct by Spacey between 1995 and
2013.
Spacey is one of dozens of men in the entertainment industry and
politics who have been accused of sexual misconduct in the past
10 months, partly as a result of the #MeToo social media
movement.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Clive McKeef)
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