Actor Kevin Spacey asks judge to axe Anthony Rapp's sex abuse suit


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Kevin Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'American Beauty', a 1999 film in which he played a frustrated suburban father who lusts after his daughter’s best friend. Photo: AFP

Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday (April 8) to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the then-teenage Rapp at a 1980s party are false.

The lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that the alleged events Rapp described never occurred. Rapp has appeared in Rent on Broadway and in Star Trek: Discovery on television.

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