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 The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement
that the alleged incident involved an adult male.
The sheriff's department said it began investigating the matter
on Dec. 11 last year and presented its results to the district
attorney last week, five months after Spacey was fired from
Netflix political drama "House of Cards" over sexual misconduct
accusations.
"A case was presented April 5 by the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department," Los Angeles District Attorney spokesman
Greg Risling said in an email to Reuters. "It's under review."
A spokeswoman for the actor, Laura Johnson, declined to comment.
The nature and origin of the sexual assault accusation was not
disclosed. It was unclear if California's statute of limitations
on prosecuting criminal sexual assault, which is normally 10
years, would apply.
More than 30 men have said they were victims of unwanted sexual
advances by Spacey, one of the most prominent Hollywood figures
to be publicly accused of sexual misconduct since accusations
against movie producer Harvey Weinstein sparked the #MeToo
movement on social media.
Spacey, 58, became embroiled in controversy last year when actor
Anthony Rapp accused him of trying to seduce him in 1986 when
Rapp was 14.
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Spacey later apologized for any inappropriate conduct while denying
any specific memory of the behavior in question. The "American
Beauty" actor also came under fire for using the occasion to
acknowledge for the first time that he was gay, a statement gay
advocates criticized as conflating issues of sexual wrongdoing with
sexual orientation.
The fallout resulted in Spacey being dropped from the sixth and
final season of the Netflix series "House of Cards," and erased from
the 2017 movie "All the Money in the World." Christopher Plummer was
brought in take over his role and reshoot all of Spacey's scenes.
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.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey in Los Angeles; Editing by Steve Gorman)
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