Sordid Spacey accusations surface after sexual misconduct bombshell

A former TV anchor has accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting a female relative, and another person tweeted Monday that her “young male friend” was “groped” by the actor when they worked at the Old Vic in Britain.

Victoria Featherstone, artistic director of London’s Royal Court Theatre, was asked Monday if she had been aware of any inappropriate behavior by Spacey when he served as artistic director of the Old Vic in the city. Spacey was accused Sunday of being sexually aggressive with then-14-year-old actor Anthony Rapp in 1986.

“I think that many people in the theater and in the creative industries have been aware of many stories of many people over a lot of years, and Kevin Spacey would be one of the people that people have had concerns about, yes,” Featherstone told Radio 4’s “Today,” the Independent reported.





Heather Unruh, a former Channel 5 anchor in Boston, tweeted Monday, “I applaud your courage Actor Anthony Rapp @albinokid. You are not alone.”

When reports emerged two weeks ago about the sexual harassment allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, Unruh had tweeted: “The #weinsteinscandal has emboldened me– #truth time. I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fell.”

She told the Boston Globe that the incident occurred last summer at a well-known restaurant that she did not name.

Spacey walked in very late and people were “starstruck,” she told the paper.

The actor sat beside a woman, “plied her with booze” and did something beneath the table that was “completely unexpected, completely inappropriate,” she said.

“If a woman who saw what happened didn’t tell [the alleged victim] to run while Spacey got up to go to the bathroom, I don’t even want to think about what would’ve happened,” Unruh told the Globe on Oct. 13.





“My loved one is brave for wanting to say something. She was advised to say something with all these people coming out against Harvey Weinstein, people talking about these types of incidents.

“There’s a huge fear factor with everyone who wants to come out, but can’t. I’m just one person wanting to talk, this woman is just one person, but there are so many more, it’s unbelievable,” she said.

“My intent was to encourage a badly needed investigation and conversation and used the hashtag #It’sNotOk,” she added, the Daily Mail reported.

Unruh, who would not identify the alleged victim, did not respond to an email from the Globe on Monday.

Spacey responded to Rapp’s allegations by tweeting an apology in which he claimed he did “not remember the encounter” — and also came out as gay.





“If I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,” he said in his statement.

Meanwhile, a friend of a man who worked with Spacey at the Old Vic claims he was “groped” by Spacey, the Daily Mail reported.

“KS groped my young male friend when they were both working at the Old Vic. Was apparently always known as one to avoid. Sadly unsurprised,” Nadine West tweeted as @andiekarenina.

Featherstone added that there had been an “opening of the floodgates and a very important moment for us all throughout society, not just in our industry.”

“We have a culture across society which has accept this … it’s deep in our DNA to accept these behaviors. And it’s only now that we’re finding the vocabularies and the confidence and the means to have these conversations,” she added.

Spacey’s reps did not immediately return a request for comment.





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