Kevin Spacey Doc Gets U.S. Air Date on Max, Investigation Discovery

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A Channel 4 documentary unveiling the testimonies of 10 men who allege they were sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey will air in the U.S. on Monday, May 13.

Spacey Unmasked, featuring a group of men detailing their first-hand accounts of alleged abuse at the hands of Spacey over the course of five decades, will premiere on Investigation Discovery and also be available to stream on Max.

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The documentary aired in the U.K. on May 6 and 7, promising a “forensic look” at Spacey’s rise to fame and the allegations that have dethroned him.

None of the men in the program were involved in the London trial that saw the actor acquitted of nine charges in July 2023, and all but one have never spoken out before. The charges stemmed from alleged acts that occurred from 2001 to 2013; Spacey was artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theatre from 2004 until 2015.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Spacey is due to stand trial in the U.K. again, likely in 2025, over a lawsuit by a man who alleges that the actor sexually assaulted him in August 2008. The claimant has been granted anonymity by the court.

Earlier this year, a judge granted the unnamed claimant in the civil case “judgment in default,” meaning a ruling in his favor without a trial, after the star’s legal team missed a deadline to formally submit a defense. A judge on Tuesday overturned that decision; Spacey didn’t attend the court date.

“The defendant’s solicitors have made an error,” the judge said, according to Reuters. “In my view, that error should not be visited upon the defendant.” The civil claim, which was originally filed in July 2022, was put on hold until the outcome of the criminal trial against the star.

The actor has denied the widespread allegations against him. “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings,” Spacey said in a long thread on X, formerly Twitter, before the weekend.

He also said about the doc: “There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4. Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated.”

“I’ve got nothing left to hide,” Spacey also told former U.K. broadcaster Dan Wootton during a two-hour, 20-minute interview entitled Kevin Spacey: Right of Reply, which streamed on X.

Many of the victims in the doc claim to have been starstruck by Spacey, bowled over by his promise to aid them in their careers, only to soon realize it was at the cost of exchanging alleged “sexual favors,” often while on set as they claim he “kidnapped” crewmembers to “run lines.”

Spacey’s brother, Randall Fowler, is also interviewed. He says in the doc that he was sexually abused by their father, who held “Nazi meetings” at their family home as a teenager. His brother Kevin was not abused to his knowledge — though that doesn’t mean there wasn’t “psychological trauma,” Randall adds.

The allegations in Spacey Unmasked also include that the star pushed his groin into the face of an Old Vic worker while serving as the venue’s director and that he masturbated in front of an aspiring actor as they watched Saving Private Ryan in a public theater, before trying to move the victim’s hand to join in.

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