Times Colonist

Spacey, Seagal cases dropped

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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.

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