Spacey, Seagal cases dropped
Los Angeles prosecutors have cited the statute of limitations while saying they won’t file sexual assault cases against actors Kevin Spacey and Steven Seagal involving incidents in the early 1990s.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office made no comments Tuesday on the merits of the accusations.
The cases were reviewed by a task force established to evaluate sex-abuse allegations in the entertainment industry in the wake of dozens of women accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and others of abuse.
Prosecutors also rejected filing a charge against black-ish actor Anthony Anderson, citing insufficient evidence.
Anderson “unequivocally disputes the claim” against him, and authorities have not contacted him about it, a representative for the actor said in a statement.
Representatives for Spacey and Seagal did not immediately return emails seeking comment.
Seagal — a Russian citizen who was named in August as the Kremlin’s newest special envoy to the United States — has faced more than half a dozen allegations of sexual assault, including rape, over several decades.
Spacey, 58, is the former artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London and is the subject of multiple police investigations in Massachusetts and England. A sexual battery allegation from 2016 in Malibu is still under review by the district attorney.
He was fired from the Netflix series House of Cards after the allegations arose.