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Sunday, December 29, 2019
Three of Kevin Spacey's accusers have died this year.
Linda Culkin, John Doe, Ari Behn: Three of Kevin Spacey's accusers have died this year.
Ari
Behn, a former Norwegian royal who accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexual
assault in 2017, has died by suicide aged 47, just hours after Spacey
shared a bizarre video on social media. In 2017, Behn accused
Spacey, 60, of groping him under the table at a Nobel Peace Prize
concert in Oslo a decade earlier. He is the third Spacey accuser to die
in 2019.
Behn, who was born in Denmark, was married to Martha Louise,
the oldest daughter of Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja, for 14
years. The couple divorced in 2017 and have three daughters: Maud
Angelica, 16, Leah Isadora, 14, and Emma Tallulah, 11.
Princess Martha Louise and Ari Behn. Image: Getty.In
a statement, Norway's King Harald said Behn was "an important part of
our family for many years and we carry warm and good memories of him
with us".
Behn's accusation.
During a radio interview in
2017, Behn claimed that Spacey groped him under a table during a banquet
in 2007, just after he and actress Uma Thurman had finished hosting
a Nobel Peace Prize concert.
He and Spacey were seated next to each other when the alleged incident occurred. "We
had a nice conversation," Behn said. "After five minutes, he says 'Hey,
let's go out and have a cigarette'. Then he puts his hand under the
table and grabs me by the balls." Behn, who was married to the princess at the time, said he was so taken aback that his only response was, "Eh? Maybe later."
Spacey's video.
Behn's
death comes after Spacey, who has been accused of sexual misconduct
by more than a dozen men, released a video on Christmas Eve in which he
said he would kill his enemies "with kindness". In the video,
Spacey was speaking with a Southern accent like one of his most famous
characters: President Frank Underwood from Netflix's House of Cards.
"The
next time someone does something you don’t like, you can go on the
attack, but you can also hold your fire and do the unexpected," he said. He finishes: "You can kill them with kindness," as ominous music plays in the background.
Two other Spacey accusers have died.
John Doe.
Another
of Spacey's accusers, an anonymous massage therapist, died in September
just one month before his lawsuit against the actor was set to go to
trial. The alleged victim, known only 'John Doe', filed the lawsuit against Spacey in Los Angeles Superior Court in September 2018. The Hollywood Reporter has said Doe claimed he was hired to give Spacey a massage at his home in Malibu in October 2016. After being greeted by the actor, Doe alleged he was led to an upstairs bedroom where Spacey locked the door behind them. The
actor allegedly told the masseur he was having some discomfort in his
groin and laid down on the table facing up. The complainant alleged
Spacey forced his hand to his testicles. Doe claimed he jumped
back in shock and the actor then complimented his eyes, tried to kiss
him and offered him oral sex. He said he asked Spacey to let him leave
multiple times before the actor stopped blocking his way. In
September, just a month after the sides agreed to proceedings, which
would likely have meant a seven to 11-day trial, the masseur's attorney
informed Spacey that his client "recently passed". As the trial relied
on testimony, the charges were dropped.
Linda Culkin.
Linda
Culkin died after being struck by a car in Quincy, Massachusetts. No
charges were filed against the driver, who remained at the scene. Culkin,
a former nursing assistant who was 59 when she died, was the first to
accuse Spacey of misconduct against young men. She began cyberstalking
the actor in 2009 after one of her patients accused Spacey of attacking
him. In 2014 she was sentenced to more than four years in prison for sending him and his associates death and bomb threats.
Criminal charges dropped.
In 2018, Spacey was charged with battery and indecent assault for allegedly grabbing an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket bar in 2016. The
accuser told police he was working as a busboy at the restaurant when
he started drinking with Spacey one night in July 2016. After both
men had several drinks, the young man claimed Spacey put his hand on
his thigh, unzipped his pants and rubbed his penis for about three
minutes, according to court documents seen by The New York Times. The
young man said, according to a police report, that Spacey was trying to
take him home but he escaped after telling a woman he thought
Spacey was attempting to rape him. The lawsuit was dropped "with prejudice," in July meaning it will not be refiled. It is not known if a settlement was reached.
Other accusations.
In October 2017 Rent actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance towards him back in 1986 when Rapp was 14 years old.
In response, Spacey said he has "a lot of respect and admiration" for Rapp, and that he did not recall the incident the Broadway star described. "If
I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what
would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour, and I am sorry
for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years,"
Spacey said in a statement posted to Twitter. Following Rapp
coming forward, a slew of other men, including Harry Dreyfuss, son of
actor Richard Dreyfuss, made their own accusations against the actor. Dreyfuss wrote that Spacey fondled him when he was 18 despite his obvious discomfort and indication the touching should stop. More
than 20 additional allegations were also connected with Spacey’s
time as Artistic Director at The Old Vic theatre in London. Six allegations of sexual assault by six different men, ranging from 1996 to 2013, have been lodged against Spacey at Scotland Yard in the UK. Variety reported Spacey was interviewed by police about these charges in May. No charges have been laid.
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