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Prosecutors last month authorised the charges
to be brought against Spacey, 62, on four counts of sexual
assault against three men, and a further charge of causing a
person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
Police said the alleged assaults had taken place between March
2005 and April 2013 - four in the capital London and one in
Gloucestershire. They involved one man who is now in his 40s and
two men now in their 30s.
"He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court at 10am
(0900 GMT) on Thursday, 16 June," London's Metropolitan Police
said, confirming Spacey had been charged on the five counts
authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) following his
arrest.
Spacey, who won Academy Awards for the Usual Suspects and
American Beauty in the 1990s, has said he is willing to defend
himself in Britain and is confident any trial will prove his
innocence.
Once one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Spacey has largely
disappeared from public view since being accused of sexual
misconduct five years ago.
In November 2017, London's Old Vic theatre said it had received
20 separate allegations of inappropriate conduct by Spacey from
20 men who came into contact with him at the theatre, or in
connection with it, between 1995 and 2013.
He was dropped from the TV show "House of Cards" and removed
from the movie "All the Money in the World" after the
accusations of sexual misconduct came to light.
(Reporting by Michael Holden and William James; Writing by
Alistair Smout; Editing by Kate Holton and Mark Heinrich)
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